From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:27:43 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote? In-Reply-To: <20110728014241.GA577@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20110728014241.GA577@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20110728022743.GB11481@mercury.ccil.org> 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 http://www.ccil.org/~cowan