Quotes About Ubuntu

#1. 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

#2. You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

Desmond Tutu

#3. The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.

Wes Moore

#4. In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.

Nelson Mandela

#5. 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

#6. Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#7. Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

Allan Boesak

#8. Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

Paul Pierce

#9. Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

Desmond Tutu

#10. Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

Matt Mullenweg

#11. I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Donald Knuth

#12. If you haven't installed Ubuntu before but have installed an operating system such as Windows XP, Vista, or 7, you'll be amazed at how quick and easy Ubuntu is to install.

Robin Nixon

#13. There is a word in South Africa - ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us,

Barack Obama

#14. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

Wes Moore

#15. We want too much but enjoy too little.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.

Charles Duhigg

#17. Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

Halle Berry

#18. Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

Will Self

#19. He gave me a feral grin. "Like what you see, dove?" "Nope." I hadn't had sex in eighteen months. Pardon me while I struggle with my hormone overload.

Ilona Andrews

#20. If you're 35 and single and it's a choice, it feels fine. So I didn't settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!

Drew Barrymore

#21. Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

Michel De Montaigne

#22. Refuting a merely contentious argument - a description which applies to the arguments both of Melissus and of Parmenides: their premisses are false and their conclusions do not follow.

Aristotle.

#23. Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation

Robert Kiyosaki

#25. How is that for service? Do you know how many men onboard would kill for the use of a spoon?"
"And do you know," she retorted, "how many men I can kill with a spoon?

Susan Dennard

#26. For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.

George Osborne

#27. Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

Douglas Adams

#28. Compromise does not mean cowardice.

John F. Kennedy

#29. Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?

Penny Matthews