Linus Torvalds

“I wrote a program that crashed Windows”

“Dijkstra probably hates me. Comment in Linux kernel 1.1.42's kernel/sched.c file  ( 1994”

“OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name”

“Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :) Torvalds, Linus ( 1992”

“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs. Torvalds, Linus ( 1992”

“Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain”

“Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix”

“Torvalds, Linus Benedict (1991”

“Do you pine for the nice days of minix”

“I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. Torvalds, Linus ( 1991”