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Arno Penzias:
“Money and sex, storage and bandwidth; only too much is ever enough.”
Bill Gates:
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who
empower others.”
“If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would
have crossed it years ago?”
“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what
people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly
coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will
all beg your binary gods for mercy.”
“You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs
that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling
machines will show us the way.”
Steve Jobs:
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it
works.”
Linus Torvalds:
“A consumer doesn’t take anything away: he doesn’t actually consume
anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really
any more expensive than giving it to just one.”
“Any program is only as good as it is useful.”
“I don’t try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don’t really
see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and
Windows are simply so different.”
“I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more
it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don’t find
anything technically interesting there.”
“I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on
just making Linux the best I can.”
“I’ve never regretted not making Linux shareware. I really don’t like
the pay for use binary shareware programs.”
“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.”
“In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important
part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or
not seems to be secondary.”
“In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making
good operating systems.”
“Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did.”
“Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get
paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”
“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like
Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.”
“Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.”
“The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually
customers too, that has always been an important part of Linux.”
“There are lots of Linux users who don’t care how the kernel works, but
only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.”
“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.”"
“You won’t get sued for anticompetitive behavior.”
Dennis Ritchie:
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a
genius to understand the simplicity.”
Ken Thompson:
“I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple
interface: open, close, read, and write.”
Steve Wozniak:
“But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell
any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous
or it’s a company.”
“Even if you do something that others might consider
wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your
parents what you’re doing because you believe it’s right.”
“I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer
should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”
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