Unix Operating Quotes

#1. If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
of different places, just write a Unix operating system.

Linus Torvalds

#2. Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

William Morris

#3. We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.

Kofi Annan

#4. Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

Vernor Vinge

#5. A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

Mason Cooley

#6. Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Alanis Morissette

#7. I LOVE horror movies, man... I just don't want to LIVE in one.

D.X. Stone

#8. UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#9. A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

Charley Pride

#10. Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.

Tom Christiansen

#11. I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

Dr. Seuss

#12. From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

Dennis Ritchie

#13. If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Raymond Williams

#14. I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Jamie Zawinski

#15. And every stone and every star a tongue,
And every gale of wind a curious song.
The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke
Divinity: the Earth did undertake
The office of a priest; and I being dumb
(Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come
With voices and instructions ...

Thomas Traherne

#16. I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

Hope Davis

#17. It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#18. UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Dennis Ritchie

#19. Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

Neal Stephenson

#20. The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a name people recognize on the screen was completely new.

Joss Whedon

#21. Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#22. I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

Sharon Horgan

#23. The battle cry sort of gave you away. Try not to yell next time.

Richelle Mead

#24. UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

David Wolfe