"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
- Linus Torvalds
"A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable."
- Jessica Livingston
"Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it."
"Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it."
- Jaron Lanier
"You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect."
- Scott Simpson