They Said It, June 2006

"Don't build your own kernel. It's a great way to waste a month of your time."

"The main reason for using BSD is that you work at Yahoo. Otherwise, use Linux."

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

- Cal Henderson, on building Flickr on Linux. Flickr is now owned by Yahoo, most of which runs on Yahoo's BSD.

-http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2006/view/e_sess/8068

REST is the Unix pipe of the net - Kevin Marks

(on IRC at a conference)

"Daddy, you have a picture of the Internet on your shirt." -- 6 year old daughter of Phil Windley, on his lap while he wore a Firefox shirt

"Open source development violates almost all known management theories." - Marletta Baba, Dean of the College of Social Sciences, Michigan State University

Source: Greg K-H in http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/oscon_2005_state_of_the_kernel/

"Keep Your Exits Open: How Startups & Their Investors Can Minimze the Risk of Using Open Source Code" - Title of a Dow Jones Virtual Seminar on March 20, 2006

"Make Business Fast, Easy and Risk-Free: What Free and Open Source Software Does to Liberate Free Markets" - Title of a virtual seminar proposed by Doc Searls to Dow Jones

- Source: Andrew Leyden and Doc Searls