Nog wat leuke quotes van the master himself:
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"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." (By Linus Torvalds)
"World domination. Fast." (By 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." (By Linus Torvalds)
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)
And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies." (By Linus Torvalds, Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
"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)
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)
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*'. (L. Torvalds)
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)
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)
"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)
The people who created MIME not only should be convicted, they should be shot on the spot. (Linus Torvalds)
The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to it's feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds)
I _like_ using goto's every once in a while: it can often mess up the gcc optimizer just enough to get better code out of it. (Linus Torvalds)
So, if anybody wants to have hardware sent to them: don't call me, but instead write your own unix operating system. It has worked every time for me. (Linus Torvalds)
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That's enough for now lads