I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

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.

Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.