Theo de Raadt Quotes

Buttons are for idiots.

You'd be safer using Windows than the code which was just deleted.

...you are being the usual slimy hypocritical asshole... You may have had value ten years ago, but people will see that you don't anymore.

It's terrible, everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'

The kernel is a harsh mistress.

You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

35 commits an hour? That's pathetic!

Our solutions provide something that is 100% right, all the time. That is the idea. The cobbled together gunk never does [...] It's unfortunate the application-level people are all caught up in cobble, cobble, cobble and just never learn how to evolve.

Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent Multics in a browser. (paraphrasing Herny Spencer's famous quote)

The world doesn't live off jam and fancy perfumes - it lives off bread and meat and potatoes. Nothing changes. All the big fancy stuff is sloppy stuff that crashes. I don't need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. That's not as pretty, and just as hard.

This is a software monopoly but at least it was written by people who care about security, so it's not like Microsoft's monopoly.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.

Low code quality keeps haunting our entire industry. That, and sloppy programmers who don't understand the frameworks they work within. They're like plumbers high on glue.

Quite frankly, SSE's alignment requirement is the most utterly retarded idea since eating your own shit.