Some are unknown, and have no author.
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
“You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
Chuck Palahniuk quotes
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done”
linus torvolds
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
-An Wang
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.”
-Linus Torvalds
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." -Linus Torvalds
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.” -Linus Torvalds
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
My name is Linus, and I am your God.” -Linus Torvalds
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.” -Linus Torvalds
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.” -Linus Torvalds
“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” -Benjamin Franklin