Technology is best when it brings people together.
I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
Free software’ is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech,’ not as in ‘free beer’.
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows.
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.
Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
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.’