Miguel de Icaza Quotes

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Microsoft loves Linux.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

We can build a better product than Linux.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.