But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.

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.

Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one.

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Home they brought her warrior dead.

Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...

what is most personal is most universal

People get nervous when things move to Friday. Friday has become a landscape where shows just don't do very well as business for the network.

I'm almost 46. You become no longer even regarded in a sexual way. As you get older you're just taken out of that realm. So it's not anything that particularly confronts me very much at all.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.