


``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.'' --~Linus Torvalds 



``I hate programming.'' --~Rasmus Lerdorf. 
``Whoa...I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz $>$ /dev/audio' and I think I heard God...'' --~mikecd on \#linux
``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.'' --~from linux/Documentation/CodingStyle
``You've got to look cool, People don't want to walk around advertising that they're a cyborg dork.'' --~Wayne Piekarski 
``I see once again I am hindered by some acquaintance with facts.'' --~Telsa Gwynne 
``Bubblesort rules!  ... within a very limited domain...  :-)'' --~Martin Schwenke
``Oath, it is. The dress is `outrageous bow tie', not sure if any other clothing is required.'' --~Conrad Parker
``The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.'' --~Linus Torvalds
``Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?''\newline``Because we use vi, son. They use emacs.''
``Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter \textit{what} the circumstances.'' --~Linus Torvalds
``...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your \textit{computer} being struck by lightning.'' --~Matt Welsh
``Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot.'' --~H. Peter Anvin
``PHP, when it first came out, didn't really have any merits, and many claim it still doesn't, but it filled a void where a simple tool to perform a simple task was needed.'' --~Rasmus Lerdorf             
``I love the whole sound of `carrier grade' though: Do you use `carrier grade' Linux or just the `recreational boating' version?'' --~Victor Yodaiken 
``Only wimps use tape backup: \textit{real} men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)'' --~Linus Torvalds
init: Received SIGNUKE, killing all users.   --~H. Peter Anvin
``Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.'' --~from the .sig of Malcolm Tredinnick
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``\texttt{panic("esp: Aiee penguin on the SCSI-bus.")}'' --~The Kernel
``On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a `BREAK' - everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS.'' --~Tarl Neustaedter
``I'd crawl over an acre of `Visual This++' and `Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb.  Thank you.'' --~Vance Petree

``The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...'' --~Linus Torvalds
``You dont exist. Go away.'' --~The Kernel
``Emacs is for people who desperately want to get drunk, but feel guilty doing so without a reason.'' --~Miles O'Neal 
``A passport is not sufficient ID to get a library card here.'' --~Telsa Gwynne






