Linux Quotes

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
Linus Torvalds

Means, Won, Microsoft

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
Linus Torvalds

Good, System, Create

Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski

Time, Free, Value

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
Linus Torvalds

Different, Try, Simply

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
Linus Torvalds

Best, Making, Definitely

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Linus Torvalds

Yourself, Laugh, Philosophy

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Linus Torvalds

Hard, Before, Rather

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
Linus Torvalds

Good, Positive, Put

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
Linus Torvalds

Trust, Return, Depend

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
Richard Stallman

Different, Between, System

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
Jamie Zawinski

Great, Become, Big

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
Steve Wozniak

Life, Best, Seem

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
Linus Torvalds

Paid, Indirectly

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
Linus Torvalds

Good, Pretty, Leave

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds

Good, Successful, Fact

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
Linus Torvalds

Important, Nothing, Wrong

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
Linus Torvalds

Best, Pretty, Worry

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
Linus Torvalds

Happy, Keep, University

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
Linus Torvalds

Happy, Red, Hat

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
Linus Torvalds

Making, Pay, Binary

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
Linus Torvalds

Made, Sense, Definitely

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
Linus Torvalds

Important, Themselves, Actually

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
Linus Torvalds

Good, Care, Works

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
Linus Torvalds

Good, Easy, Worked

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.
Richard Stallman

System, However, Discourage

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
Steve Ballmer

Everything, Sense, Cancer

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
Donald Knuth

Trust, Family, Between

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
Miguel de Icaza

Nice, Wanted, Close

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
Miguel de Icaza

Work, Successful, Two

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
Miguel de Icaza

Love, Able, Fact

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