Bill Gates Quotes

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

When we're building tools, we respect developers' complete creative freedom. It can be used for the development for anything that's legal.

I think all of the great developers start not with the intent to make money, but with the intent to make something fun that's in their passion zone.

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

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.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you're doing and go fix it.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.