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From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:28:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110728032802.GD2875@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110728014241.GA577@minnie.tuhs.org>

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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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28  1:42 Warren Toomey
2011-07-28  2:27 ` John Cowan
2011-07-28  3:28 ` Larry McVoy [this message]

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