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Alan Cox Quotes

"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."

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