Quotes by Alan Cox

All software sucks.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off unwanted plant life.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

There is a difference between being a hacker and the socially inadequate computer geek vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon there are more lines than there are on a roadmap of London - and they work. There are very very few errors in a microprocessor.