Rusty Russell Quotes

This page is here in honor of Rusty Russell, one of the funniest Linux kernel developers EVER

Here are some Rusty Russell quotes:

Well, you don't get to be a kernel hacker simply by looking good in Speedos. (source: http://lwn.net/Articles/67165/)

Rusty has had this in his e-mail signature:

Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell

Rusty has also had this in his e-mail signature:

There are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy

Rusty often has problems with his last name being mispelled:

In looking through dev.c, I noticed that someone had misspelled my name at the top of the file, so I sent a quick patch off to Alan and Linus:

From: Rusty Russell  To: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: [PATCH] Trivial name typo. Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:24:07 +1100

Just noticed this... 2.2 and 2.3. This Russel disease must be stamped out before it becomes widespread.

Rust. --- linux-2.2/net/core/dev.c.~1~   Sun Dec  5 13:24:45 1999 +++ linux-2.2/net/core/dev.c   Thu Dec 23 15:20:21 1999 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ *        Adam Sulmicki   :    Bug Fix : Network Device Unload *                   A network device unload needs to purge *                   the backlog queue. - *   Paul Rusty Russel    :    SIOCSIFNAME + *   Paul Rusty Russell    :    SIOCSIFNAME */
 * 1) include 