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8th October 2016

Linux Quotes

I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.. Surely, Linus is talking about the kind of idiocy that others aspire to :-)
-- Bruce Perens in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.

By golly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best thing since sliced bread.
-- Vance Petree, Virginia Power

Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
-- Linus Torvalds (to Andrew Tanenbaum)

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 Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it. -- Linus Torvalds

Linux is like if the creator of git wrote an operating system.
-- @SwiftOnSecurity
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/784521343740080128

 

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