Mark Shuttleworth Quotes

#1. There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

Matt Mullenweg

#2. We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

Miguel Nicolelis

#3. Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world

Mark Shuttleworth

#5. The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

Sigmund Freud

#6. It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Pope Francis

#7. All this life is let to chance, where are the buoys of its tender love

S.L. Northey

#8. I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.

Mark Shuttleworth

#9. There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.

Mark Shuttleworth

#10. Like Zidane I want to inspire the kids

Eden Hazard

#11. The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

Jamaica Kincaid

#12. A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

Mark Shuttleworth

#13. What puts you so in the zone that hours and hours pass and you've barely glanced at the clock? If money were no issue, what is the thing you feel so passionately about that you'd do it for free? What do you care about enough to want to put in the time required to get better and better at it?

Claire Cook

#14. It'd been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work.

Lisa Shearin

#15. I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.

Mark Shuttleworth

#16. Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.

Mark Shuttleworth

#17. Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

Charles Dickens

#18. Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

Mark Shuttleworth

#19. Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.

Mark Shuttleworth