* Linus Torvalds, Project coordinator and original developer of Linux, in <2ephop$rr1@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
"Question: What is your favourite window manager? Alan: Are you trying to start a fight with someone! I don't know. Mostly I used fvwm."
* Alan Cox, Renowned Linux kernel Hacker, an Interview in 2000.
"An uncluttered desktop design for some serious hacking"
* Eric S. Raymond, Author, Hacker and Open Source advocate, describing his fvwm configuration "Eric's Big Blue-Steel Desktop" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/fvwm2/fvwm2rc).
"I've been a confirmed fan of fvwm ever since I started using this layout; it increases my efficiency fantastically. Every other Linux window system has bad ideas about the focussing --- every option of KDE and GNOME is broken in some important way!"
* Donald Knuth, Author and creator of TeX, posting to the fvwm mailing list.
"The name FVWM used to stand for something, but I forgot what. (Feeble, famous, foobar? It doesn't really matter, this is an acronym based society anyway.)"