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Quotes and Comments

This is my list of interesting quotes I've collected. If you know the author to any of the quotes I have listed that are either incorrect or authorless, please contact me.


"The potential of Free Software and the Linux community are so powerful that I'm certain we're about to experience a radical visible movement within the computing industry."


--François Bancilhon


"I have this master plan
go to canada
$100us worth of quarters
then take them all here
and slowly put them into circulation
as regular quarters
noone will notice
and I'll get like alot of "free" quarters
I really have to go to the carnival"


--Dragonmere


"That's the price we pay for flexibility and power - need a little more knowledge"


--Grimau


"If you leave a Windows computer in the box, it is infinitely more secure than any Linux box that isn't."


--me


"It's not uncommon for two different Linux systems to be completely different."


--theoddone33


"the operating system that is less secure is the one with the greater number of clueless users"


--theoddone33


"i'm not seniel yet, i still got a few good months with me"


--Ricardo


"Lindows - Proof that Unix isn't ALWAYS better than Windows."


"Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course."


"My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS."


"*sniff* I'm not mentioned on your quotes page *sniff*"


--Chunky_Ks


"Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change."


"What on earth do you need an animated help thingy for? Wouldn't it be better to actually do a helpfile people can access and find help in! Not only is it bloody useless but you can change the way it looks!! Wow! Super, superb, never mind that if you work at a document for more than a couple of hours the damn program tells you that there isn't enough room on your 80GB drive to save your 50 Kbyte file. But you CAN change the damn office assitant into a ball a cat a dog or an ugly fat bloke."


--willisoften


"It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind."


--Terry Pratchett


"Any tool that we develop which allows commercial developers to ignore us cannot possibly be helpful."


"I'm amazed at how the supporters of Wine and WineX haven't just invited the Trojan horse into the walls of their city, but have actually helped build the horse in the first place."


"That's something that for a few percent of the price of the PC you can buy a commercial operating system, where all the work of testing it, supporting it, delivering it, is included for a few percent of that price of the PC."


--Bill Gates


"Software written in universities should be free software."


--Bill Gates


"GPL software is like this thing called Linux, where you can never commercialize anything around it; that is, it always has to be free. And, you know, that's just a philosophy. Some said philosophy wasn't around much anymore, but it's still there. And so that's where we part company."


--Bill Gates


"...you only -- if your universities are doing work that can be commercialized, you will have IT jobs in your country. And if they are not, then fine, just say that farming is your thing, or whatever it is. All the taxes will be paid by those guys or something -- I don't know. And the farmers will go home at night and work on the source code."


--Bill Gates





This is a small sampling of the emails and instant messages I receive on a daily basis. Some of these are taken from online forums as well, and mostly comments about this site and help that I've given over IRC or any IM protocols.





"many thanks for your sb-live tutorial =) I've thought I'll have to die while listening metal with crispy sound ;) But now... thanks man !!!!!"


--Alexander Bierbrauer


"I am just dropping a quick note telling you what a relief it was to find your resource ('the Mandrake eXPerience') - so far I have installed java and fixed the clock (still working on getting the nvidia card going, tho ;-)."


--doug


"I would like to commend you for the work put in on the "mandrake eXperience". I saw it a few days ago and put a link to it on my site http://don.yoll.net as I found it very useful not only for one with experience as myself, but a great place for newbies to learn a lot of tweaks. Once again, thanks for your efforts."


--nerd don


"just wanted to give ya props on your site... didn't know how helpful it was til i started using it"


--Dread Lord Shot


"by far the easiest tutorials for a newbie, alot of which I wish I had seen before learning the hard way"


--Nandro


"hey, this is just a fan of your website, and you are right, Mandrake 9.0 is awesome."


--EnderG4


"y arn't u at school?"


--Cuga


"well i got to say this, your doing a good job"


--ShadowX


"mannn.... You're the ****ing ***t and a half... STILL!"


--knowledge


"Have I mentioned that I love your tutorials yet?? hehe"


--Deacon


"I just noticed after reading your quotes how gay hehe looks..."


--Deacon


"Hey dog, thanks for the effort you have made to put up all these tutorials."


--Steve


"First off, cool site, helped me out with java and xmms, so wanted to say thanks."


--mark


"I just wanted to say thanks for the excellent tutorial on installing the Nvidia drivers on Mandrake 9.0 ... I don't think I would have been able to do it without your very detailed, but simple enough to follow, tutorial."


--Patrick Gaerlan


"You help me a lot in getting a grip on Linux ... I also greatly appreciate your site."


--ral


"I just used your SB Live! tutorial for mdk 9 and it worked great, now my audio in 9.0 is even better than when it was in mdk8.2, which is good cause I was getting depressed with the poor audio i was getting. again, THANKS!!!!"


--IndieRockSteve


"Hello, I wanna thank you to help mandrake users. I took The Installing NVidia drivers and it's great, and very clear."


--ponto


"News: [2002-10-09] D. Olson created an rpm package. Thanks!"


--http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~flierl/src/cursor-ms/readme.txt


"You've been more than patient with me and I thank you. I've heard in newsgroups and web sites of some in the Linux community who have been less than tolerant. You should be held up as the example of tolerance for putting up with me."


--Lorenzo Quijano


"...next time I'll might give a better look at your site before mailing solutions ;-)"


--Michel Hoogervorst


"First I'd like to congratulate you for sacrificing your time to help fellow Linux users, only people like you helped Linux become more popular ... Keep up the excellent work!"


--Maciek


"i just want to say that i appreciate you taking the time to create these tutorials. i can use all the help i can get. thanks."


--wireddad


"I like your site. It is always nice to see some tutorials dedicated to linux newbies. They are very easy to understand! I bookmarked your site, so keep up the good work"


--Helios


"Very, very nice site. I'll be visiting regularly. I was thinking of creating a site like yours. No need to now........ :D"


--chadm1967


"On my 1st visit here think I've learned more by having a look at your tutorials than i did with 2 hrs at the mandrake campus your comparisons with windows make it easier for us poor souls who were misguided."


--mark2


"Has your front page been hacked? It appears to be all scrambled.."


--miljam


"Heyyy, that is a great site! "Easy to Understand" tutorials are the best. Keep up the good work, and I am looking forward to checking the site frequently for new tutorials on other things. PS I bookmarked the site."


--StormeLnx


"Thank you, thank you. Until I found your tutorial I was tearing my hair out trying to get my scanner to work. Now happily scanning."


--Richard


"You did very good job special you can choice of your own avatar it`s very good in my language you say Spitze,I`ll say 10 out of 10. :D :D ;) ;) Is ther a register #?."


--michael


"Linuxnewbie.org has "Registered Users: 35261". You want glory? Is that not enough??? They are a site devoted to helping people learn Linux: "Linuxnewbie.org strives to bring users of all levels the most current information on Linux!""


--dunbar


"I was browsing your web page and I noticed the fact that your page is linked from Distrowatch, so I checked it, and ****! it is true!!! ... My best congratulations, you are doing a great job!!!"


--arusabal


"what are you doing up so late?"


--joehill


"i think i should just buy your book. when is it coming out?"


--DrCrank69


"you've got a nice site"


--dante20883


I hope you all enjoyed reading these quotes. I know it was fun to find them all, and I look forward to expanding them!



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