And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports
on it, you know they are just evil lies.
-- Linus Torvalds

[...] or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name.
(Don't laugh! Look at the SMC etherpower for that.)
-- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS

Linux: the choice of a GNU generation
-- ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93

I've seen people with new children before, they go from ultra happy to
looking like something out of a zombie film in about a week.
-- Alan Cox about Linus after his 2nd daughter

Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into
super-edit-debug-compile mode?
-- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs

<grin> seen jhm
<dpkg> jhm is Sarek, and jhm is on the channel right now!
* JHM wonders why dpkg remembers that particular nick.
<grin> dpkg: Sarek? ermm, sure, and I am Khan
-- Seen on #Debian

<netgod> And once Diziet/CQ make the formal announcment that LSA
sucks, we can even reduce the Crisis Level rating and move
on to linuxfoundation.org .
-- #Debian

"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"
Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
-- Felix von Leitner, leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de

> Whoa, first contact!

Nope, 'fraid not, Linux is still primarily used on planet Earth, I'm
afraid.

Our friend here sent a message in Russian (KOI8-R encoding).
-- Aleksey Kliger, explaining a russian posting

Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.
-- Mike Coleman