Linux Quotes

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.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

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

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

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

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.

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

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.

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

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

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

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

In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

We can build a better product than Linux.

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.

Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them.

Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.

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.

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.