I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.

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.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Questions about acting are difficult.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.