Category Archives: Quote of the Day
QoTD: Shigeru Miyamoto
“So, it’s important for us to acknowledge that we’re prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.” — Shigeru Miyamoto, on designing the Wii controllers
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QoTD: Mark Shuttleworth
“Every company has its blowhards and its various good guys. We have ours.” — Mark Shuttleworth compares and contrasts Canonical and Red Hat Tomorrow’s news: Canonical blowhard count apparently steady, despite Waugh resignation.
QoTD: Jeff V. Merkey
“It’s official. Microsoft and Novell will now fork Linux.” — Jeff V. Merkey on lkml That’s right everybody, Merkey’s back! Woohoo! Let’s all get hammered and punch baby seals!
QoTD: Bryan Clark
“Behind this chilling professional corporate persona… there is someone who has probably signed up for too many [Web 2.0] accounts.” — Bryan Clark, on weighing corporate acceptance with a publically incompetent life on the Internet
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QoTD: Matt Mullenweg
“I have no problem with someone creating Knock-OffPress — that’s one of the freedoms of the GPL and those who would trade freedom for security of their business deserve neither.” — Matt Mullenweg interview on Blogging Pro
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QoTD: Havoc Pennington
“And I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to filing some completely unreasonable window manager bug and then raising hell when the maintainer rejects my demands. ” — Havoc Pennington, about Compiz on d-d-l
QoTD: Steve Garrity
“People pay a lot of money for whitespace these days.” — Steve Garrity, at lunch today Bonus quote: “What’s with this theatre? It’s like we’re all here in Marie Antoinette’s vagina!” — Jon Stewart, live at the Wang Theatre in … Continue reading
QoTD: Raven Zachary
“As we’ve seen with open-source projects before, with market share comes business opportunity.” — Raven Zachary on Open Source business models, in this case, Ubuntu
QoTD: Jeff Mahoney
“The solution for replacing an aging file system isn’t to switch to a brand new unproven file system, but rather a proven one with a clear upgrade path. That file system is ext3.” — Jeff Mahoney of SUSE Labs, proposing … Continue reading
QoTD: Val Henson
“I used DTrace extensively while I was working on Solaris and got used to being able to answer any question I had about a system with a few minutes of script writing. When I went back to work on Linux … Continue reading
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