UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. — Linus Torvalds
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer
All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less — Linus Torvalds
'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. — Ken Olsen
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. — Donald Knuth
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. — Milton Friedman
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. — Dennis Ritchie
The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers. — Jensen Huang
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. — Alan Perlis
What commercialism has brought to 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
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. — Niklaus Wirth
Short Kernel Quotes
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel. — Johannes Kepler
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. — Henrik Ibsen
All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel. — Sathya Sai Baba
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. — Linus Torvalds
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels — Richard Stallman
Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel. — Bahya ibn Paquda
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. — Charles Spurgeon
If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time. — Gary Gulman
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. — Marisha Pessl
The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. These revolutions arose from the discovery, beginning just over a century ago, of the three fundamental kernels of our existence: the atom, the bit, and the gene. — Jennifer Doudna
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. — Louisa May Alcott
The most dramatic optimization to nanoGPT so far 25% speedup is to simply increase vocab size from 50257 to 50304 nearest multiple of 64. This calculates added useless dimensions but goes down a different kernel path with much higher occupancy. Careful with your Powers of 2. — Andrej Karpathy
Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate. — Claire Messud
The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different. — Huston Smith
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. — Linus Torvalds
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
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. — Vasily Grossman
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in. — Aimee Mullins
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. — Hannah More
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. — Harry Dean Stanton
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. — Saadi Shirazi
At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point. — John Peel
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise. — Linus Torvalds
Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. — Orville Redenbacher
I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me. — Forest Whitaker
I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow. — Barbara Jordan
True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower. — Rumi
Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all. — Wallace Thurman
You know when you make popcorn there are always those fluffy white kernels that are fun and good to eat but there are also always those burnt, black kernels that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? Because they have integrity. — Marc Maron
The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited. — Linus Torvalds
You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it,
Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit."
So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you? — Andre Benjamin
This is the kernel of the problem, as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations under which they dwell, and as such can neither assimilate nor be readily digested by any nation. — Leon Pinsker
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. — Helen Keller
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." — Henry David Thoreau
Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh. — Meridel Le Sueur
I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color. — Nick Offerman
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody. — Haruki Murakami
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'. — C. S. Lewis
I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation. — James Grant
All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how. — Michael Specter
The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there. — Andrew Greeley
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. — Meister Eckhart
Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten. — Sara Shepard
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be. — Isaac Asimov
The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost. — Meridel Le Sueur
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