2003

"My reasons for putting Linux out there were pretty selfish. I didn't want the headache of trying to deal with parts of the operating system that I saw as the crap work. I wanted help."

- Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux) in an interview with Wired,
"Wired 11.11: Leader of the Free World" by Gary Rivlin, November 2003.

January 4, 1996

A Serious Miscalculation

“…an Internet browser is a trivial piece of software. There are at least 30 companies that have written very credible Internet browsers, so that’s nothing… ”

- Bill Gates as quoted in
"The world according to Gates" by Don Tennant
InfoWorld Electric, January 4, 1996