Gpl'd Quotes

#1. Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

Linus Torvalds

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

Richard Stallman

#3. The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

Kevin Powers

#4. I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

Linus Torvalds

#5. We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

Mike Jackson

#6. I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

George Eliot

#7. Five days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she went to work.

Barack Obama

#8. Give yourself permission to honor and follow the God-given desires of your heart.

Alaina Odessa

#9. The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.

Rachel Nichols

#10. Lanny, climbing the hill, carried a thought which by now had become his familiar companion: Why, oh, why did men have to make their lives so ugly? What evil spell was upon them that they wrangled and scolded, hated and feared? He

Upton Sinclair

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

Bill Gates

#12. I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Gwendoline Christie

#13. It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

Jeremy Grantham

#14. The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

E. O. Wilson

#15. It's starting to hurt, Billy said, almost like he didn't want to interrupt. A thin

Michael Grant

#16. Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

Linus Torvalds

#17. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. I

Colleen Hoover

#18. As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

Al Sharpton

#19. Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

Cher

#20. Within you is everything you need; hold on to that and let go of everything else.

Darryl Diptee

#21. At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

Darl McBride