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+<title>What People Are Saying</title>
+
+The following are collected quotes from various forums and blogs about
+Fossil, Git, and DVCSes in general.  This collection is put together
+by the creator of Fossil, so of course there is selection bias...
+
+<h2>On The Usability Of Git</h2>
+
+<ol>
+<li>Git approaches the usability of iptables, which is to say, utterly
+unusable unless you have the manpage tattooed on you arm.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>by mml at [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387]</i>
+</p>
+
+<li><nowiki>It's simplest to think of the state of your [git] repository
+as a point in a high-dimensional "code-space",  in which branches are
+represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of
+successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned
+repository.</nowiki>
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>by Jonathan Hartley at
+[https://www.tartley.com/posts/a-guide-to-git-using-spatial-analogies];
+<br>Quoted here: [https://lwn.net/Articles/420152/].</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>Git is not a Prius. Git is a Model T.
+Its plumbing and wiring sticks out all over the place.
+You have to be a mechanic to operate it successfully or you'll be
+stuck on the side of the road when it breaks down.
+And it <b>will</b> break down.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>Nick Farina at [http://nfarina.com/post/9868516270/git-is-simpler]</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>Initial revision of "git", The information manager from hell
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>Linus Torvalds - 2005-04-07 22:13:13<br>
+Commit comment on the very first source-code check-in for git
+</p>
+
+<li>I've been experimenting a lot with git at work.
+Damn, it's complicated.
+It has things to trip you up with that sane people just wouldn't ever both with
+including the ability to allow you to commit stuff in such a way that you can't find
+it again afterwards (!!!)
+Demented workflow complexity on acid?
+<p>* dkf really wishes he could use fossil instead</p>
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>by Donal K. Fellow (dkf) on the Tcl/Tk chatroom, 2013-04-09.</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>&#91;G&#93;it is <i>designed</i> to forget things.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~davide/howto/git_lose.html]
+</p>
+
+<li>&#91;I&#93;n nearly 31 years of using a computer i have, in total, lost more data to git
+(while following the instructions!!!) than any other single piece of software.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>Stephan Beal on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg17181.html|Fossil mailing list]
+   2014-09-01.</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>If programmers _really_ wanted to help scientists, they'd build a version control
+system that was more usable than Git.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>Tweet by Greg Wilson @gvwilson on 2015-02-22 17:47</i>
+</p>
+
+<li><img src='xkcd-git.gif' align='top'>
+
+<p class="local-indent"><i>Randall Munroe.  [http://xkcd.com/1597/]</i><p>
+
+</ol>
+
+<h2>On The Usability Of Fossil</h2>
+
+<ol>
+<li value=11>
+Fossil mesmerizes me with simplicity especially after I struggled to
+get a bug-tracking system to work with mercurial.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>rawjeev at [https://stackoverflow.com/a/2100469/142454]</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>Fossil is the best thing to happen
+to my development workflow this year, as I am pretty sure that using
+Git has resulted in the premature death of too many of my brain cells.
+I'm glad to be able to replace Git in every place that I possibly can
+with Fossil.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>Joe Prostko at [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg16716.html]
+</p>
+
+<li>This is my favourite VCS. I can carry it on a USB. And it's a complete system, with it's own
+server, ticketing system, Wiki pages, and a very, very helpful timeline visualization. And
+the entire program in a single file!
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>thunderbong commenting on hacker news: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131619]</i>
+</p>
+
+
+</ol>
+
+
+<h2>On Git Versus Fossil</h2>
+
+<ol>
+<li value=14>
+After prolonged exposure to fossil, i tend to get the jitters when I work with git...
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>sriku - at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16104427]</i>
+</p>
+
+
+<li>
+Just want to say thanks for fossil making my life easier....
+Also <nowiki>[for]</nowiki> not having a misanthropic command line interface.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>Joshua Paine at [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg02736.html]</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>We use it at a large university to manage code that small teams write.
+The runs everywhere, ease of installation and portability is something that
+seems to be a good fit with the environment we have (highly ditrobuted,
+sometimes very restrictive firewalls, OSX/Win/Linux).  We are happy with it
+and teaching a Msc/Phd student (read complete novice) fossil has just
+been a smoother ride than Git was.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>viablepanic at [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bxcto/why_not_fossil_scm/c0p30b4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3]</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>In the fossil community - and hence in fossil itself - development history
+is pretty much sacrosanct. The very name "fossil" was to chosen to
+reflect the unchanging nature of things in that history.
+<br><br>
+In git (or rather, the git community), the development history is part of
+the published aspect of the project, so it provides tools for rearranging
+that history so you can present what you "should" have done rather
+than what you actually did.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>Mike Meyer on the Fossil mailing list, 2011-10-04</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>github is such a pale shadow of what fossil does.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<i>dkf on the Tcl chatroom, 2013-12-06</i>
+</p>
+
+<li>&#91;With fossil&#93; I actually enjoy keeping track of source files again.
+
+<p class="local-indent">
+<a href="https://wholesomedonut.prose.sh/using-fossil-not-git">https://wholesomedonut.prose.sh/using-fossil-not-git</a>
+</p>
+</ol>