8 Quotes by Alan Cox

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All software sucks.