A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

Mutli-tools are like insults, girls - you should always have one on hand.

No one makes it big without discipline.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.

Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?