"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine
Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html
"In the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones." - Nokia VP Ukko Lappalainen
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE4B16IO20081202
"Coincident with the release of this code I have concluded my agreement with Atheros whereby I had access to information about their devices. This means that in the future all fixes, updates for new chips, etc. will need to be a community effort. Atheros states the Linux platform will be the reference public code base so folks wanting to add support for other platforms will have to scrape the information from there." - Sam Leffler,maintainer of the binary HAL, also used in MadWifi releases, on release of source code for his HAL (hardware abstraction layer) variant.
Source: http://lwn.net/Articles/308984/ (The original, which has the full text above, is out there somewhere, but I can't find it right now.)
"Expect to see millions of web devices, even desktop web devices, in the coming years that completely strip out the Windows layer and use the browser as the only operating system the user needs." - Mike Arrington
source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/meet-chrome-googles-windows-killer/comment-page-2/