Scientist Quotes

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.

I've never worked with the Java community.

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.