... when men were men
and wrote their own device driver ...
--- Linus Torvalds

******** W A R N I N G !
Linux should not be used by those under the influence of MicroSoft.
May cause dizziness or vertigo. Consult your tech support before
using Linux. (note--after using Linux, you may notice extreme
discomfort when using MicroSoft. Discontinue use of MicroSoft.)
******** W A R N I N G !

"World domination. Fast."
(By Linus Torvalds)

"Im an idiot.. At least this one (bug) took about 5 minutes to find,,,"
(Linus Torvalds in response to a bug report.)

"Never make any mistaeks."
(Anonymous, in a mail discussion about to a kernel bug report.)

Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.
(By Mike Coleman.)

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
(Seen somewhere on the net.)

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)

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)

Those who don't understand Linux are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.
(Unidentified source.)

We apologize for the inconvenience, but we'd still like yout to test out
this kernel.
(Linus Torvalds, announcing another kernel patch.)

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)

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, sent in by Michael Driscoll)

> I get the following error messages at bootup, could anyone tell me
> what they mean?
> fcntl_setlk() called by process 51 (lpd) with broken flock() emulation
They mean that you have not read the documentation when upgrading the
kernel.
(Seen on c.o.l.misc)

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.)

what's the difference between chattr and chmod?
SomeLamer: man chattr > 1; man chmod > 2; diff -u 1 2 | less
(Seen on #linux on irc)

First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards,
and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture.
(Linus in linux/Documentation/CodingStyle)

Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.
(Seen in the .sig of Gerd Knorr .)

> I don't have time right now, or I'd offer to write it.
Is this the official Debian slogan??
(Seen in some news exchange, contributed by Mike Coleman)

Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft
approach to programming" and should never be allowed.
(Linus Torvalds)

"...I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply
suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an
interpreter."
(From N. Petreley's column, "Down to the Wire", sept. '96 issue of Inforworld)

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

> Compilable but broken code is even worse than working code
(Alan Cox, during a bright moment on the linux-kernel list)

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
(Bill Gates)

The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." I can't understand why it won't work on my Linux computer.

Microsoft gives you Windows... Linux gives you the whole house.

Linux: The choice of a GNU generation

Type cat vmlinuz > /dev/audio to hear the Voice of God.

Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.

The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog
box and lets you press 'OK' first.

Why use Windows, since there is a door?

Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware

Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates.

Some software money can't buy. For everything else there's Micros~1.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms.

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect.
--- Linus Torvalds

Linux...
"Find out what you've been missing while you've been rebooting Windows NT."
--- Infoworld