50. Idevelop for Linux for a living, I used to develop for DOS.
Going fromDOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117.
我开发Linux只是为了生计，我已经习惯了为DOS编程。
从DOS过渡到Linux就像让开滑翔机的人去开F117隐形轰炸机。
--Lawrence Foard, entropy@world.std.com
49.Avoidthe Gates of Hell. Use Linux
躲开地狱之门（讨厌的Bill Gate），使用Linux吧。
48. I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the lastfew
months. Ijust love debugging ;-)
我这几天把几个月的Doom游戏量都玩掉了，我爱Debug抓虫。
(LinusTorvalds)
47.Bygolly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best thingsince
slicedbread
我的天，我现在已经开始认为Linux是世界上最好的东西了
-- VancePetree, Virginia Power
46. Linuxposes a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night
hacking(and/or conversations with God).
Linux对那些熬夜的技术高手们是个不错的挑战。
-- MattWelsh
45. Linuxis obsolete.
Linux太棒了！
-- AndrewTanenbaum
44. Yourjob is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a goodexcuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
要学习让人发疯Minix，你的职业就是教授和研究员，
(LinusTorvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
43. Istill maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. Youwould not get a high grade for such a design :-)
我始终认为设计一个统一的内核是一个根本性的错误。幸运的是你并不是我的学生，你会为这样的系统设计概念得到一个高分的。
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)
42. Weall know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5seconds.
- LinusTorvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam LinuxSymposium
我们都知道，Linux是伟大的。。。但是他5秒钟就可以产生一个死循环
Linus
41.People disagree with me. I just ignore them.
不同意我观点的人，我当他们不存在
LinusTorvalds
时间关系Linuxeden只翻译了部分内容，有兴趣的朋友们可以把翻译全文共享出来.
40. Somepeople have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodiesthe grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen anangry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lotmore careful about what they say if they had.
-- LinusTorvalds, announcing Linux v2.0
39. Otherthan the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain whyshould use Linux over BSD?
38.“How should I know if it works? That's what betatesters are for. I only coded it." (Attributed to Linus Torvalds,somewhere in a posting)
37."Problem solving under linux has never been the circus that it isunder AIX." (By Pete Ehlke in comp.unix.aix)
36."Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don'tyou?" (By Patrick Volkerding)
35. "Andthe next time you consider complaining that running Lucid Emacs19.05 via NFS from a remote Linux machine in Paraguay doesn't seemto get the background colors right, you'll know who to thank." (ByMatt Welsh)
34."...Deep Hack Mode--that mysterious and frightening state ofconsciousness where Mortal Users fear to tread." (By MattWelsh)
33. Sigh.I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the"leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. (Craig E.Groeschel)
32.Microsoft Corp., concerned by the growing popularity of the free32-bit operating system for Intel systems, Linux, has employed anumber of top programmers from the underground world of virusdevelopment. Bill Gates stated yesterday: "World domination, fast-- it's either us or Linus". Mr. Torvalds was unavailable forcomment ... (rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk (Robert Manners), incomp.os.linux.setup)
31. Whowants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts youinto super-edit-debug-compile mode? (Discussion incomp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especiallyEmacs.)
30. It'sa bird.. It's a plane.. No, it's KernelMan, faster than a speedingbullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5seconds flat.. (Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27)
29. Thosewho don't understand Linux are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.(Unidentified source.)
28. "Howdo you power off this machine?" (Linus, when upgradinglinux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using the machine for severalmonths.)
27. I'vediscovered that using VMS is a lot like driving a nail with yourhead: sure, you eventually get something practical done, but itusually results in a headache and some blood loss.
(submittedby Sean A. Simpson)
26. "...being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by alarge family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when youwake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a newturret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone hastemporarily removed the floor under your bed." - Unix for Dummies,2nd Edition (Found in the .sig of Rob Riggs)
25. IfBill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah.(Unknown source)
24. LILO,you've got me on my knees!
(from DavidBlack, dblack@pilot.njin.net, with apologies to Derek and the
Dominos, andWerner Almsberger)
23.Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fastsystem. (Seymour Cray)
22. Wecan use symlinks of course... syslogd would be a symlink to syslogpand ftpd and ircd would be linked to ftpp and ircp... and of coursethe point-to-point protocal paenguin. (Kevin M. Bealer, commentingon the penguin Linux logo.)
21. Amultithreaded file system is only a performance hack. (AndrewTanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)
20. I didthis 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue.(Dave '-ddt->` Taylor, announcing DOOM forLinux)
19. Thismessage was brought to you by Linux, the free unix. Windows withoutthe X is like making love without a partner. Sex, Drugs& Linux Rules win-nt from the people who inventededlin apples have meant trouble since eden Linux, the way to getrid of boot viruses. (By mwikholm@at8.abo.fi, MaDsen Wikholm)
18. Bewarned that typing killall name may not have the desired effect onnon-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.
-- From thekillall manual page
17. Onlywimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuffon ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. "
--- LinusTorvalds
16. Linuxis not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is notignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.
---Sourceunknown
15. `Whenyou say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stareat you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *forfree*".' (By Linus Torvalds)
14. "Ifyou want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at alot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." (ByLinus Torvalds)
13. "AreLinux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff ofreliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)
12."Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line UserEnvironment". (seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)
11.“See, you not only have to be a good coder tocreate a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastardtoo.” (By Linus Torvalds)
10. "Whathappens when you read some doc and either it doesn't answer yourquestion or is demonstrably wrong? In Linux, you say "Linux sucks"and go read the code. In Windows/Oracle/etc you say "Windows sucks"and start banging your head against the wall."
--- DenisVlasenko on lkml
9."...you might as well skip the Xmas celebration completely, andinstead sit in front of your linux computer playing with theall-new-and-improved linux kernel version." (By Linus Torvalds)
8. Linuxhackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels. (Seenin the .sig of Gerd Knorr.)
7. Linux:the choice of a GNU generation
--ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93\
6. "Notme, guys. I read the Bash man page each day like a Jehovah'sWitness reads the Bible. No wait, the Bash man page IS the bible.Excuse me..."
(More onconfusing aliases, taken from comp.os.linux.misc)
5. What'sthis script do?
unzip ;touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep
Hint for theanswer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're
in asleeping bag, camping out with your girlfriend.
(Contributedby Frans van der Zande.)
4. I'm anidiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.. Surely,Linus is talking about the kind of idiocy that others aspire to:-)
(BrucePerens in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernelbug.)
3. One OSto rule them all,
One OS tofind them.
One OS tocall them all,
And insalvation bind them.
In thebright land of Linux,
Where thehackers play.
(J. ScottThayer, with apologies to J.R.R.T.)
2. ...theLinux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one."Do it yourself". That's it. (by Linus)
1. We areusing Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours!
-- Adaptedfrom Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan
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