Some Favorite Quotes of Mine (From My Favorite Nerds!)

“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” – Bill Gates

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so irritating.” -Bill Gates

“If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.” -Bill Gates

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” -Bill Gates

“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time” (in 2004) -Bill Gates

“Does the e-mail say it’s about ‘enlargement’ – that might be spam.” -Bill Gates

“It’s possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.” -Bill Gates

“Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.” -Linus Torvalds

“[...] the Linux philosophy is ‘laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong one. ‘Do it yourself’. That’s it.” -Linus Torvalds

“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)” -Linus Torvalds

“My name is Linus, and I am your god.” -Linus Torvalds

“When you say “I wrote a program that crashed Windows”, people just stare at you blankly and say “Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*”.” -Linus Torvalds

“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.” -Linus Torvalds

“The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.” -Linus Torvalds

“If you still don’t like it, that’s ok: that’s why I’m boss. I simply know better than you do.” -Linus Torvalds

“Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.” -Linus Torvalds

“Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we’re kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.” -Linus Torvalds

“Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.” -Linus Torvalds

“Let’s put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is “right” or not, you are morally corrupt. Let’s not go there. We don’t base our morality on law.” -Linus Torvalds

“A lot of people still like Solaris, but I’m in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.” -Linus Torvalds

“I’d like to say that I knew this would happen, that it’s all part of the plan for world domination.” – Linus Torvalds

“Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I’m flexible, and not black-and-white.)” -Linus Torvalds

“I’m always right. This time I’m just even more right than usual.” -Linus Torvalds

When asked why he called the new software, “git,” British slang meaning “a rotten person,” he said. ‘I’m an egotistical bastard, so I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.’” -Linus Torvalds

“The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at _any_ point pretty damn ugly. ” -Linus Torvalds

“Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did.” -Linus Torvalds

“If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.” -Linus Torvalds

“I wish him [Bill Gates] the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” -Steve Jobs

“I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.” -Steve Jobs

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” -Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” -Steve Jobs

“Because I’m the CEO, and I think it can be done.” -Steve Jobs

“You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting.” -Steve Jobs

“I want to put a dent in the universe.” -Steve Jobs

“It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.” – Steve Jobs

“Better to be a pirate than to join the navy.” -Steve Jobs

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs

 

And there you go. All quotes yanked from Wikiquote, speciaifically, these pages: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs