Alan Cox Quotes

What matters are the applications.

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Alan Cox

Alan Cox is a British computer programmer and software engineer who is best known for his works on the Linux operating system. He was the maintainer of the 2.2 and 2.4 versions of the Linux kernel, and has been a prominent figure in the development of Open Source. He is currently employed by Intel, working on the MeeGo project. He is also the author of several books on computing and internet technology.

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Alan Cox

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

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Alan Cox

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

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Alan Cox

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

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Alan Cox

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.

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Alan Cox

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.

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Alan Cox

He's a great kid.

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Alan Cox

It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused,.. Hope will rebuild landmarks. Hope will outlive the broken hearts. Hope will outlive the disillusioned.

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Alan Cox

I'm going to Disneyland!

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What matters are the applications.
Alan Cox

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

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Alan Cox

A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines.

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Alan Cox

Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.

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