28 Jul
2011
28 Jul
'11
7:42 a.m.
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.
While we are at it, are there any other good Unix quotes that spring to mind?
Thanks,
Warren
28 Jul
28 Jul
8:27 a.m.
Warren Toomey scripsit:
Any ideas if/when Henry said this and where: date,
first time it appeared
in print etc.
Searching at Google Groups (which is not a trivial undertaking; posts
found by "Search by relevance" vanish when you search by date) finds
http://groups.google.com/group/news.software.b/browse_thread/thread/64ca4e7…
,
which is by Henry and dated November 12, 1987. So he definitely
said it. However, it's in his .sig, which may mean that he was simply
quoting someone else unnamed.
While we are at it, are there any other good Unix
quotes that spring
to mind?
http://www.linfo.org/q_unix.html has some classics including Henry's.
http://nickelkid.net/docs/quotes/unix.html also has good ones once you
scroll down past the Windows quotes.
My former boss Len Silver said, back around 1983: "What you're saying
is that Unix is a local minimum?" He was a physicist turned quant at
a Wall Street firm. "Exactly," said I.
--
Business before pleasure, if not too bloomering long before.
--Nicholas van Rijn
John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org>
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
9:28 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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