They're called quotations, not quotes.

[linearlogic]

Five Reasons to love Linusx.

1. If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
   
2. 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

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Nah, Bill Gates/Microsoft 4evah

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Re: 2. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Re: 3. Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
Re: 4. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Re: 5. Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Re: Principle of the Thing. If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want [good] software to be written, or not?

Linus/Linux = OTP, n00b.

[linearlogic]

2. Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)
3. I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.
4. My name is Linus, and I am your god.
5. I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Re: Principle of the Thing. 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*'.

Eww. If Linux's unofficial mascot is a penguin, then that's...really squicky, Spell-check.

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2. Sometimes we do get taken by surprise [and 'we' includes you].
3. It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
4. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
5. The best way to [be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written.

Principle of the Thing. There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

Only because you have to think of it like *that*, Barbie.

[linearlogic]

2. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
3. Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.
4. See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
5. You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.

Principle of the Thing: Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get something half-way

If you say OTP, I'm going to make some assumptions, Spell-check.

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2. To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination.
3. Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.
4. In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen.
5. What's a network? If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

Principle of the Thing: The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Must your assumptions always involve sexual intercourse, Barbie?

[linearlogic]

2. Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
3. The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
4. Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
5. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say "I don't care" with a straight face, and really mean it. .

Principle of the Thing: The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

OTP has sexual implications. Do you know anything?

[master_sigurd]

3. There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
4. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
5. I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Principle of the Thing: It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.

One True Pairing can be platonic and nonsexual. Mind out of gutter, Barbie.

[linearlogic]

3. Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
4. They are smoking crack.
5. 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.

Principle of the Thing: Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.

My mind's in the gutte, but I'm looking up at the stars, which say One True Pairings aren't platonic

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3. We don't have the user centricity.
4. It's possible, you can never know.
5. We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Principle of the Thing: All right, you have me there, but what do you know about that? It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

Try typing with both hands to cut down on the typos, Barbie.

[linearlogic]

3. Personally, I'm _not_ interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.
4. I allege that SCO is full of it.
5. I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.

Principle of the Thing: That Linus said it, and so it must be true. Are you unaware of his godhood? . Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's _my_ choice, dammit.

It was a necessary evil, Spell-check; it was the only way it would fit. ... Um.

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3. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
4. [SCO's] done some good work.
5. All of these products become obsolete so fast.

Principle of the Thing: Quoth Lord Gates, "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient."
So why don't you prove your god is right by going out and getting laid?
As long as [you] are going to steal it, we want [you] to steal ours.

You could have reworded it, Barbie. Is that beyond your skills?

[linearlogic]

3. Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well.
4. There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
5. Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

Principle of the Thing: Thank you for the offer, but I'm still asexual. I'll let you know if that ever changes. The GPLv2 in no way limits your use of the software. If you're a mad scientist, you can use GPLv2'd software for your evil plans to take over the world ("Sharks with

It would have lacked the impact.

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3. If I'm still interesting, I'll rack up dollars as people access that part of the [information] highway.
4. Just like a Mac.
5. Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers.

Principle of the Thing: And I presume you wish me to do the same when I cease to be heterosexual? A passing fad...

[linearlogic]

3. Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
4. Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
5. Shades of Windows, in my opinion: "yeah, we know it is broken, but we preferred some hard-to-trigger filesystem corruption to breaking a legacy program that couldn't understand the new filesystem features."

Principle of the Thing: Can you see Narnia from there? You have to understand what the primary objective of an OS is: to create a virtual environment that is simple and sane to program against....

Have you learned nothing at all from DOS and Windows?

Have you no taste?

And do you not realize that features never get dropped: they just end up increasing the binary size and icache pressure forever?

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3. Dear God, that smiley does not suit you! It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose [their information].
4. Again. There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. We think the PC really is the entertainment platform for the future; we're gonna have the best performance, the way to reach out and do multiplayer games, lots of new peripherals and the improvements just keep coming.
5. There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

Principle of the Thing: You're one to talk; you're clearly relaxing in Cair Paravel, sitting as one of the Sons of Adam and Steve upon the throne of King Edmund the Repressed Homogay. We've done some good work!

[linearlogic]

3. Admittedly, it's not an expression you're likely to see on me IRL, but it was part of the quotation. I strongly believe that trying to be clever is detrimental to your health.
4. If you have to repeat yourself, you just lost. I actually think that Linux with the stuff that is going on in 3D, desktops, etc., has a chance to become the first real user-friendly UNIX.
5. "Give them rope", as Joan of Arc used to say.

Principle of the Thing: Wishful thinking on your part, Barbie. Such remarks are unlikely to drag me over to your side of the river. Maybe somebody else comes up with a better way to do it, or with a really compelling reason to.

"Feel free to try" is definitely the open source motto.