Gnu's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The passions may be terrible, but the syllables are a relief.

Denis Donoghue

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward.

Victoria Addino

#6. Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...

Immanuel Kant

#7. Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

Richard Stallman

#8. There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

Richard Stallman

#9. 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

#10. There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with ... nobody can ever improve the software.

Bill Gates

#11. The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

Richard Stallman

#12. I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.

Amanda Beard

#13. 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

#14. Be faithful to God in your small ministry and He will exalt you

Sunday Adelaja

#15. 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

#16. I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

Todd Bennett

#17. 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

#18. An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

Linus Torvalds