8 Linus Torvalds Quotes on Technology

Linus Torvalds quotes on technology

6. Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

13. Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)

15. See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)

25. They are smoking crack.

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

50. EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).

71. Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

78. I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.