Alan Cox
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"Alan Cox" is a United Kingdom/British computer programmer who maintained the 2.2 branch of the Linux kernel and continues to be heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel, an association that dates back to 1991. He lives in Swansea, Wales with his wife, Telsa Gwynne.

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It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused, ... Hope will rebuild landmarks. Hope will outlive the broken hearts. Hope will outlive the disillusioned.

He's a great kid.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off unwanted plant life.

I'm going to Disneyland!

There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon there are more lines than there are on a roadmap of London - and they work. There are very very few errors in a microprocessor.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

What matters are the applications.