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Because a 486 is a terrible thing to waste! + -- Joe Sloan, jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu +% +Microsoft is not the answer. +Microsoft is the question. +NO (or Linux) is the answer. + -- Taken from a .signature from someone from the UK, source unknown +% +In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. +Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? + -- Hasse Skrifvars, hasku@rost.abo.fi, +% +Windows without the X is like making love without a partner. +Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules +win-nt from the people who invented edlin. +Apples have meant trouble since eden. +Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses + -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi +% +Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was +good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's +unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd +happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After +a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file, +and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do +a compile. + -- Erik Troan, ewt@tipper.oit.unc.edu +% +We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. + -- Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates +% +Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux + -- unknown source +% +Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The +phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up" + -- Alan Cox, iialan@www.linux.org.uk +% +Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus. + -- Mark A. Horton KA4YBR, mah@ka4ybr.com +% +"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" +Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !! + -- Felix von Leitner, leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de +% +Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to +be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they +can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the +HP-48 VT-100 emulator. + -- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com +% +There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a +threaded news reader. + -- unknown source +% +/* + * Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to + * terminate things with extreme prejudice. +*/ +die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, error_code); + -- From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c +% +Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste + -- ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93 +% +Linux: the choice of a GNU generation + -- ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93 +% +There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and +those who can't. There is a constant pitched battle between the two. + -- From one of the post-1.1.54 kernel update messages posted to c.o.l.a +% +When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at +you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*". + -- Linus Torvalds +% +We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. + -- Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu +% +Be warned that typing killall name may not have the desired +effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user. + -- From the killall manual page +% +Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, +you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should +look into it. + -- Paul Vixie, vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes +% +How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I +only coded it. + -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting +% +I develop for Linux for a living, I used to develop for DOS. +Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117. + -- Lawrence Foard, entropy@world.std.com +% +Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that +no conclusion can be drawn from them. + -- Joseph L. Brothers, Linux/PowerPC Project) +% +If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services on +the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work. + -- Chairman of Walt Disney Television & Telecommunications +% +Problem solving under Linux has never been the circus that it is under +AIX. + -- Pete Ehlke in comp.unix.aix +% +I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than +first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then +I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts') + -- Olaf Kirch +% +On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK' +- everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS. + -- Tarl Neustaedter +% +By golly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best thing since +sliced bread. + -- Vance Petree, Virginia Power +% +I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development +That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. + -- Vance Petree, Virginia Power +% +Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs. + -- Dennis Ritchie +% +If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot +of different places, just write a Unix operating system. + -- Linus Torvalds +% +...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero +outside. + -- Linus Torvalds +% +...you might as well skip the Xmas celebration completely, and instead +sit in front of your linux computer playing with the all-new-and-improved +linux kernel version. + -- Linus Torvalds +% +Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you? + -- Patrick Volkerding +% +All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... + -- Larry Wall +% +And the next time you consider complaining that running Lucid Emacs +19.05 via NFS from a remote Linux machine in Paraguay doesn't seem to +get the background colors right, you'll know who to thank. + -- Matt Welsh +% +Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of +reliable, well-engineered commercial software? + -- Matt Welsh +% +Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access. I +wonder if He has a full newsfeed? + -- Matt Welsh +% +I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of +mice vs. trackballs... It was very silly. + -- Matt Welsh +% +Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night +hacking (and/or conversations with God). + -- Matt Welsh +% +What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through +these many marketing coffee filters, is something not unlike plain hot +water. + -- Matt Welsh +% +...Deep Hack Mode -- that mysterious and frightening state of +consciousness where Mortal Users fear to tread. + -- Matt Welsh +% +...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and +the Ugly). + -- Matt Welsh +% +...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two +noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer* +being struck by lightning. + -- Matt Welsh +% +..you could spend *all day* customizing the title bar. Believe me. I +speak from experience. + -- Matt Welsh +% +[In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I +thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to be less +abusive.') + -- Matt Welsh +% +I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than +10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't. + -- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center +% +...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals. + -- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center +% +Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. + -- Stephan Zielinski +% +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 +% +I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a +fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a +high grade for such a design :-) + -- Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds +% +We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code +means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department. + -- Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software +% +Linux is obsolete + -- Andrew Tanenbaum +% +Dijkstra probably hates me. + -- Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c +% +And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports +on it, you know they are just evil lies. + -- Linus Torvalds +% +We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. + -- seen in someone's .signature +% +Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. + -- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing +% +quit When the quit statement is read, the bc processor + is terminated, regardless of where the quit state- + ment is found. For example, "if (0 == 1) quit" + will cause bc to terminate. + -- seen in the manpage for "bc". Note the "if" statement's logic +% +Sic transit discus mundi + -- From the System Administrator's Guide, by Lars Wirzenius +% +Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on +the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. + -- Craig E. Groeschel +% +We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. + - Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam Linux Symposium +% +Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, white +light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In +a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM +FOR THE 386. + -- Matt Welsh +% +The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license. +If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces. + -- Copyright notice for the chat program +% +'Mounten' wird fr drei Dinge benutzt: 'Aufsitzen' auf Pferde, 'einklinken' +von Festplatten in Dateisysteme, und, nun, 'besteigen' beim Sex. + -- Christa Keil +% +Manchmal stehe nachts auf und installier's mir einfach... + -- H0arry @ IRC +% +'Mounting' is used for three things: climbing on a horse, linking in a +hard disk unit in data systems, and, well, mounting during sex. + -- Christa Keil +% +We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! + -- Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan +% +But what can you do with it? + -- ubiquitous cry from Linux-user partner +% +/* + * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum + * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP + * to talk to the University of Mars. + * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented + * ftp to mars will work nicely. + */ + -- from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time] +% +DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system + crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily cured by + UNIX. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS. + -- David Vicker's .plan +% +MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years +of careful development. + -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca +% +LILO, you've got me on my knees! + -- David Black, dblack@pilot.njin.net, with apologies to Derek and the +Dominos, and Werner Almsberger +% +I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few +months. I just love debugging ;-) + -- Linus Torvalds +% +Microsoft Corp., concerned by the growing popularity of the free 32-bit +operating system for Intel systems, Linux, has employed a number of top +programmers from the underground world of virus development. Bill Gates stated +yesterday: "World domination, fast -- it's either us or Linus". Mr. Torvalds +was unavailable for comment ... + -- Robert Manners, rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk, in comp.os.linux.setup +% +The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. + -- Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, on X interfaces +% +After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new +folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or +speaker of intuitive likes". + -- Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, on X the intuitiveness of a Mac interface +% +Now I know someone out there is going to claim, "Well then, UNIX is intuitive, +because you only need to learn 5000 commands, and then everything else follows +from that! Har har har!" + -- Andy Bates on "intuitive interfaces", slightly defending Macs +% +> No manual is ever necessary. +May I politely interject here: BULLSHIT. That's the biggest Apple lie of all! + -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces +% +How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi $i done" in a GUI? + -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces +% +>Ever heard of .cshrc? +That's a city in Bosnia. Right? + -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands +% +Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into +super-edit-debug-compile mode? + -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs +% +Anyone who thinks UNIX is intuitive should be forced to write 5000 lines of +code using nothing but vi or emacs. AAAAACK! + -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs +% +Now, it we had this sort of thing: + yield -a for yield to all traffic + yield -t for yield to trucks + yield -f for yield to people walking (yield foot) + yield -d t* for yield on days starting with t + +...you'd have a lot of dead people at intersections, and traffic jams you +wouldn't believe... + -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands +% +Actually, typing random strings in the Finder does the equivalent of +filename completion. + -- Discussion on file completion vs. the Mac Finder +% +Not me, guy. I read the Bash man page each day like a Jehovah's Witness reads +the Bible. No wait, the Bash man page IS the bible. Excuse me... + -- More on confusing aliases, taken from comp.os.linux.misc +% +On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT + -- Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restrugo@fateware.com +% +> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.. +Disquieting ... + -- Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds's +% +> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.. +We need to find some new terms to describe the rest of us mere mortals +then. + -- Craig Schlenter in response to Linus Torvalds's +% +> 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 +% +Never make any mistaeks. + -- Anonymous, in a mail discussion about to a kernel bug report +% ++#if defined(__alpha__) && defined(CONFIG_PCI) ++ /* ++ * The meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Plus ++ * this makes the year come out right. ++ */ ++ year -= 42; ++#endif + -- From the patch for 1.3.2: (kernel/time.c), submitted by Marcus Meissner +% +As usual, this being a 1.3.x release, I haven't even compiled this +kernel yet. So if it works, you should be doubly impressed. + -- Linus Torvalds, announcing kernel 1.3.3 +% +People disagree with me. I just ignore them. + -- Linus Torvalds, regarding the use of C++ for the Linux kernel +% +It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators. + -- Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal emulator +% +Audience: What will become of Linux when the Hurd is ready? +Eric Youngdale: Err... is Richard Stallman here? + -- From the Linux conference in spring '95, Berlin +% +Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. + -- Mike Coleman +% +The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. + -- Linus Torvalds +% +... faster BogoMIPS calculations (yes, it now boots 2 seconds faster than +it used to: we're considering changing the name from "Linux" to "InstaBOOT" + -- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.26 +% +... of course, this probably only happens for tcsh which uses wait4(), +which is why I never saw it. Serves people who use that abomination +right 8^) + -- Linus Torvalds, about a patch that fixes getrusage for 1.3.26 +% +It's a bird.. +It's a plane.. +No, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. +Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat.. + -- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27 +% +Eh, that's it, I guess. No 300 million dollar unveiling event for this +kernel, I'm afraid, but you're still supposed to think of this as the +"happening of the century" (at least until the next kernel comes along). + -- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27 +% +Oh, and this is another kernel in that great and venerable "BugFree(tm)" +series of kernels. So be not afraid of bugs, but go out in the streets +and deliver this message of joy to the masses. + -- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27 +% +When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at +you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. + -- Linus Torvalds +% +Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) + -- Unknown source +% +> Linux is not user-friendly. +It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. + -- Seen somewhere on the net +% +Keep me informed on the behaviour of this kernel.. As the "BugFree(tm)" +series didn't turn out too well, I'm starting a new series called the +"ItWorksForMe(tm)" series, of which this new kernel is yet another +shining example. + -- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.29 +% +Seriously, the way I did this was by using a special /sbin/loader binary +with debugging hooks that I made ("dd" is your friend: binary editors +are for wimps). + -- Linus Torvalds, in an article on a dnserver +% +(I tried to get some documentation out of Digital on this, but as far as +I can tell even _they_ don't have it ;-) + -- Linus Torvalds, in an article on a dnserver +% +Q: Why shouldn't I simply delete the stuff I never use, it's just taking up + space? +A: This question is in the category of Famous Last Words.. + -- From the Frequently Unasked Questions +% +Q: What's the big deal about rm, I have been deleting stuff for years? And + never lost anything.. oops! +A: ... + -- From the Frequently Unasked Questions +% +Linux is addictive, I'm hooked! + -- MaDsen Wikholm's .sig +% +panic("Foooooooood fight!"); + -- In the kernel source aha1542.c, after detecting a bad segment list +% +Convention organizer to Linus Torvalds: "You might like to come with us +to some licensed[1] place, and have some pizza." + +Linus: "Oh, I did not know that you needed a license to eat pizza". + +[1] Licenced - refers in Australia to a restaurant which has government +licence to sell liquor. + -- Linus at a talk at the Melbourne University +% +Footnotes are for things you believe don't really belong in LDP manuals, +but want to include anyway. + -- Joel N. Weber II discussing the 'make' chapter of LPG +% +Eh, that's it, I guess. No 300 million dollar unveiling event for this +kernel, I'm afraid, but you're still supposed to think of this as the +"happening of the century" (at least until the next kernel comes along). +Oh, and this is another kernel in that great and venerable "BugFree(tm)" +series of kernels. So be not afraid of bugs, but go out in the streets +and deliver this message of joy to the masses. + -- Linus Torvalds, on releasing 1.3.27 +% +Ok, I'm just uploading the new version of the kernel, v1.3.33, also +known as "the buggiest kernel ever". + -- Linus Torvalds +% +Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and +quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question). + -- seen in a .sig somewhere +% +Those who don't understand Linux are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. + -- unidentified source +% +Look, I'm about to buy me a double barreled sawed off shotgun and show +Linus what I think about backspace and delete not working. + -- some anonymous .signature +% +We apologize for the inconvenience, but we'd still like yout to test out +this kernel. + -- Linus Torvalds, announcing another kernel patch +% +The new Linux anthem will be "He's an idiot, but he's ok", as performed by +Monthy Python. You'd better start practicing. + -- Linus Torvalds, announcing another kernel patch +% +How do you power off this machine? + -- Linus, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using the machine for several months +% +Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter _what_ the +circumstances. + -- Linus Torvalds, to the linux-kernel list +% +Linus? Whose that? + -- clueless newbie on #Linux +% +Whoa...I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio' and I think I heard God... + -- mikecd on #Linux +% +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 a 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, announcing Linux v2.0 +% +MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it. + -- from Lars Wirzenius' .sig +% +.. I used to get in more fights with SCO than I did my girlfriend, but +now, thanks to Linux, she has more than happily accepted her place back at +number one antagonist in my life.. + -- Jason Stiefel, krypto@s30.nmex.com +% +I mean, well, if it were not for Linux I might be roaming the streets looking +for drugs or prostitutes or something. Hannu and Linus have my highest +admiration (apple polishing mode off). + -- Phil Lewis, plewis@nyx.nyx.net +% +> What does ELF stand for (in respect to Linux?) +ELF is the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed with back in +the early 1970's. In constrast, a.out is a misspelling of the French word +for the month of August. What the two have in common is beyond me, but +Linux users seem to use the two words together. + -- seen on c.o.l.misc +% +"Linux was made by foreign terrorists to take money from true US companies +like Microsoft." - Some AOL'er. +"To this end we dedicate ourselves..." -Don + -- From the sig of "Don", don@cs.byu.edu +% +Shoot me again. +Just proving that the quickest way to solve the problem is to post a +whine to the newsgroups: within moments the solution presents itself to +me, and meanwhile my ass is hanging out on the Net... *sigh*... + -- Dave Phillips, dlphilp@bright.net, about problem solving via news +% +Besides, its really not worthwhile to use more than two times your physical +ram in swap (except in a select few situations). The performance of the system +becomes so abysmal you'd rather heat pins under your toenails while reciting +Windows95 source code and staring at porn flicks of Bob Dole than actually try +to type something. + -- seen on c.o.l.development.system, about the size of the swap space +% +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, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi +% +One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the +shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system +can be considered respectable without one. + -- Brian O'Donnell, odonnllb@tcd.ie +% +The game, anoraks.2.0.0.tgz, will be available from sunsite until somebody +responsible notices it and deletes it, and shortly from +ftp.mee.tcd.ie/pub/Brian, though they don't know that yet. + -- Brian O'Donnell, odonnllb@tcd.ie +% +'Ooohh.. "FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to Linux +over the wire". Film at 11.' + -- Linus Torvalds +% +Q: Would you like to see the WINE list? +A: What's on it, anything expensive? +Q: No, just Solitaire and MineSweeper for now, but the WINE is free. + -- Kevin M. Bealer, about the WINdows Emulator +% +So in the future, one 'client' at a time or you'll be spending CPU time with +lots of little 'child processes'. + -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the private life of a Linux nerd +% +By the way, I can hardly feel sorry for you... All last night I had to listen +to her tears, so great they were redirected to a stream. What? Of _course_ +you didn't know. You and your little group no longer have any permissions +around here. She changed her .lock files, too. + -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the private life of a Linux nerd +% +We should start referring to processes which run in the background by their +correct technical name... paenguins. + -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the penguin Linux logo +% +We can use symlinks of course... syslogd would be a symlink to syslogp and +ftpd and ircd would be linked to ftpp and ircp... and of course the +point-to-point protocal paenguin. + -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the penguin Linux logo +% +This is a logical analogy too... anyone who's been around, knows the world is +run by paenguins. Always a paenguin behind the curtain, really getting things +done. And paenguins in politics--who can deny it? + -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the penguin Linux logo +% +Linux: Where Don't We Want To Go Today? + -- Submitted by Pancrazio De Mauro, paraphrasing some well-known sales talk +% +The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to +be fun... + -- Linus Torvalds at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux +% +In short, at least give the penguin a fair viewing. If you still don't +like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do. + -- Linus "what, me arrogant?" Torvalds, on c.o.l.advocacy +% +<SomeLamer> what's the difference between chattr and chmod? +<SomeGuru> SomeLamer: man chattr > 1; man chmod > 2; diff -u 1 2 | less + -- Seen on #linux on irc +% +The linuX Files -- The Source is Out There. + -- Sent in by Craig S. Bell, goat@aracnet.com +% +"... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited +by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when +you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new +turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily +removed the floor under your bed." - Unix for Dummies, 2nd Edition + -- found in the .sig of Rob Riggs, rriggs@tesser.com +% +C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success + -- Dennis M. Ritchie +% +If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah. + -- Unknown source +% +Vini, vidi, Linux! + -- Unknown source +% +The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. + -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum +% +I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, +but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this. + -- Linus Torvalds +%
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