"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
"Unix is user friendly - it's just a bit more choosy about who it's friends are." -- Gene Buckle
"The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed Linux."
"Linux has succeeded not because the original goal was to make it widely portable and widely available, but because it was based on good design principles and a good development model." - Linus Torvalds
Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.
It’s is easy to use - if you’re one of the 2 percent of the population who thinks logically and can read an instruction manual. The other 98 percent of the population would find it very hard to use. –Leslie Lamport (in response to the question: Is LaTeX hard to use?)The only thing Micro$oft has done for society, is make people believe that computers are inherently unreliable.
"Where do you want to go today?" -- Microsoft ad campaign
"Where do you want to go tomorrow?" -- Linux enthusiasts
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C A R Hoare, as quoted by Erik de Castro Lopo
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