Tom Duff quotes
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“Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.”
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“The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].”
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“With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.”
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“Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.”
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“Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.”
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“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.”
-- Tom Duff
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