[TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?

[TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?

[Warren Toomey]

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

[TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?

[John Cowan]

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/64ca4e7650f22ac7/12af7af3e5bef5b9 ,
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 at ccil.org>
                    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

[TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?

[Larry McVoy]

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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