On: Great quotes from Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds

[apd]

The quote "Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?" by Torvalds is not from 2001. Its around the early 90s.

[d0mine → apd]

Exactly.

  From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
  Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
  Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
  Message-ID: <1991Oct5.054106.4647@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
  Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
  Organization: University of Helsinki
   
  Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
  their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying

</quote> http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/misc/linux-history.html

2001 is a dead-tree version's reference:

Torvalds, Linus and David Diamond (2001). Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, Collins. </quote> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

By the way,

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. </quote> http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132

This quote is not from 2006 but at least 2000.