All Quotes

“How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists ?”

“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”

“Do you pine for the nice days of minix”

“Torvalds, Linus Benedict (1991”

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

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

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

“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”

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

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

“I wrote a program that crashed Windows”

“Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona”

“It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid. After scoring four goals against Arsenal , 2011 [2]”

“Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) was my hero. He was the best forward I've ever seen. He was so fast that he could score a goal from nothing and he struck the ball better than anyone I've seen. Interview with FourFourTwo , 2012 [3]”

“Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it. Interview with TyC Sports , 2014 [4]”

“Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me. Interview with ShortList , 2015 [5]”

“[Becoming a father] has changed everything. He [Thiago] comes first then everything else. It has also changed the way I see a match. Before if I lost or did something wrong I didn't talk to anyone for three or four days, until it passed. Now, I come home after a game, I see my son and everything is alright. Interview with CONMEBOL , 2015 [6]”

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“I will never go to trial against Barça because it is the club that I love, which has given me everything since I arrived here. It's the club of my life, I made my life here. Messi interview with Goal, announced he remains at Barca”

“Qatar World Cup will be my last: Lionel Messi”

“I knew that at some point God was going to give it to me and I don't know why, but I felt it was going to be like this. Once again he made me very happy. After lifting the World Cup trophy 18 December 2022”

“The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn. Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans”

“Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world '? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either.”

“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell . As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1967)]”

“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is. Ebony magazine , November 1964”

“If you still have to ask, shame on you Armstrong's response to the question what jazz is, cited by Max Jones et. al. : "Salute to Satchmo", I.P.C. Specialist & Professional Press Ltd 1970, page 25”

“Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.”

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”

“True revolution in music took place, as far as I can see it, took place only a few times, three times in this century. One was the revolution that took place aided and abetted if not instigated by Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong did something with the trumpet that had never been done. Things that have become so casual, so common to our ears now, Louis Armstrong introduced. Maya Angelou , 1977 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou”

“When Louis Armstrong, according to a few of his biographies, came to Chicago he was wearing a suit, the pants of which were about three inches too short, his white socks showed, he had these brogans on and he wore a derby hat. He got up on the stage and all the musicians laughed until he started to play. When he finished playing, the next day all the musicians went out and bought some pants three inches too short, some white socks and some brogan shoes and a derby hat, you understand. Louis Armstrong was on J”