Alan Cox Quotes (10 Quotes)

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused, ... Hope will rebuild landmarks. Hope will outlive the broken hearts. Hope will outlive the disillusioned.

Everything else in the free software world gives you a package and the best package or distribution is used. The fact KDE and Gnome exists suggest they serve different groups of users, ... KDE provides more configuration and control, and Gnome more ease of use while giving up that control.

All software sucks.

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off unwanted plant life.

There is a difference between being a hacker and the socially inadequate computer geek vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

For customers it means that they can shop for 'Linux applications' without having to worry about which vendor's Linux distribution it works with,

They put over 100 million gatestransistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon there are more lines than there are on a roadmap of London - and they work. There are very very few errors in a microprocessor.