#linux

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#effort #feedback #good #linux #makes

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#felt #how #i #important #issue

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#danger #face #laugh #linux #philosophy

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#brought #commercialism #distribution #easy #good

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#applications #beauty #code #course #cross-platform

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#cd-rom #commercial #happy #hat #i

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#carry #connection #currently #drives #family

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#even #linux #lot #made #materialistic

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #like #linux #only #see

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#bad #because #best #great #great thing