* [TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?
@ 2011-07-28 1:42 Warren Toomey
2011-07-28 2:27 ` John Cowan
2011-07-28 3:28 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Warren Toomey @ 2011-07-28 1:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* [TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?
2011-07-28 1:42 [TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote? Warren Toomey
@ 2011-07-28 2:27 ` John Cowan
2011-07-28 3:28 ` Larry McVoy
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From: John Cowan @ 2011-07-28 2:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* [TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?
2011-07-28 1:42 [TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote? Warren Toomey
2011-07-28 2:27 ` John Cowan
@ 2011-07-28 3:28 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2011-07-28 3:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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