
Top 22 Gnu Quotes
#1. Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
Richard Stallman
#2. GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
Ambrose Bierce
#3. VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy - it hasn't the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.
Clifford Stoll
#4. GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
Richard Stallman
#5. Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
Richard Stallman
#6. There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
Richard Stallman
#7. In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.
Richard Stallman
#8. There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with ... nobody can ever improve the software.
Bill Gates
#10. 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.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
#11. Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'
Richard Stallman
#12. I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.
Todd Bennett
#13. An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
Linus Torvalds
#14. I also sing about my mom leaving me a lot - a lot of kids have their moms or dads leave them, so they relate to that. I wear my heart on my sleeve, so I think that's what the kids love.
Ronnie Radke
#16. I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.
Oh Land
#17. Knowing how to make a life mean something, to wring out its worth when it was right there in one's hands instead of just wishing about it afterward, or imagining how it could have been, or should have been, different.
Deborah Reed
#18. Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself.
Thomas Hardy
#19. If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.
Teresa Bloomingdale
#20. In Dallie's mind that was one of the world's stupidest questions, right up there with: was it as good for you as it was for me?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#21. There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.
Mario Batali
#22. A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
Mary McCarthy
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