Alan Cox is a British computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days 1991.
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“Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.”
Alan Cox
“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.”
“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.”
“They put over 100 million gates/transistors 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.”
“He's a great kid.”
“I'm going to Disneyland!”
“What matters are the applications.”
“I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off unwanted plant life.”
“For [customers] it means that they can shop for 'Linux applications' without having to worry about which vendor's [Linux distribution] it works with,”