"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,
"You can have the best computer set-up in the world but, if someone can convince a member of staff to let them in, all that is useless. The weakest link in any security chain is always human."
- Kevin Mitnick in "The hacker's tale: an interview with Kevin Mitnick"
An interview with the Financial Times
Published October 26, 2002
"I'd shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders."- Michael S. Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, in response to being asked at a Gartner Group symposium what he would do if he woke up in the body of Steve Jobs.
"You can't stop technology. Even if they succeed in shutting down those particular services, new services will spring up. It's the nature of the Internet."- Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
"Steve Jobs is not a credible CEO or anything else for Apple. The worst thing would be to appoint Steve CEO, except that it would give Steve the opportunity to preside over both Apple's birth and death."- David Coursey (Industry commentator) in the San Jose Mercury News, July 10, 1997.
"Speech is speech. It doesn't matter if it is words on paper or bits on bytes."- John Perry Barlow (EFF Founder) in an interview with the San Francisco Examiner, July 11, 1990.
