28 Jul
2011
28 Jul
'11
5:28 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:42:41AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, thanks for the help with that image of Ken and
Dennis at the 11/20
console. Now I'm after a reference/citation to a great quote attributed to
Henry Spencer:
Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
Any ideas if/when Henry said this and where: date, first time it appeared
in print etc.
Where is Henry, is he still with us?
While we are at it, are there any other good Unix
quotes that spring to mind?
His 10 commandments are classic.
Rob Pike: If you think you need threads your processes are too fat.
Me, same topic: Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like
pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta
Mike Padlipsky (he's got a million): Do you want protocols that look nice or
protocols that work nice?
Lynne Jolitz (wife of an unsung hero, Mr 386BSD: Bill Jolitz): The problem here
is that there is parent and child but no adult.
More at http://www.bitmover.com/lm/quotes.html - probably boring, haven't
updated those in 15 years...
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