All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less — Linus Torvalds
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. — Dennis Ritchie
'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. — Linus Torvalds
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. — Ken Olsen
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows — Linus Torvalds
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely. — Jamie Zawinski
Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. — Dennis Ritchie
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. — Steve Wozniak
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
Linux is only free if your time has no value. — Jamie Zawinski
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. — Linus Torvalds
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system. — Seymour Cray
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. — Linus Torvalds
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. — Steve Wozniak
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels — Richard Stallman
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. — Linus Torvalds
Linux Image Quotes
Unix Quotes
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. — Eric S. Raymond
A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson
Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor. — Dennis Ritchie
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it. — Dennis Ritchie
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad. — Rob Pike
UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it. — Richard Stallman
This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. — Douglas McIlroy
Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it. — Linus Torvalds
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. — Linus Torvalds
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. — Michael Dell
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope. — Gabe Newell
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
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me. — Linus Torvalds
Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation. — Jamie Zawinski
I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think. — Steve Wozniak
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
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't. — Ian Stewart
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. — Linus Torvalds
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak. — Tim O'Reilly
One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area. — Linus Torvalds
The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. — Gabe Newell
Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run. — Theo de Raadt
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. — Jamie Zawinski
A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. — Linus Torvalds
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free. — Nat Friedman
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
Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. — Linus Torvalds
I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means. — Linus Torvalds
What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta. — Ryan C. Gordon
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. — Steve Ballmer
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
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. — Linus Torvalds
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
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. — Nat Friedman
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