#ux

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

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#avoid #away #believe #better #force

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#cars #drive #flashy #hotels #luxury

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#afford #all day #come #day #does

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. ↗

— John Keats

#brood #could #death #hour #i

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ↗

— Helen Keller

#carpet #grass #lush #luxurious #me

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread. ↗

— Thomas Day

#luxuries #poor #right #want #while

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