Havoc Pennington quotes

“Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.”
-- Havoc Pennington

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“The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they] suddenly look like software.”
-- Havoc Pennington

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“Either you participate in the community like an adult or you leave and do your own thing,”
-- Havoc Pennington

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“Spend your 'different points' wisely.”
-- Havoc Pennington

#Different Quotes

“Solve a real problem and the world is yours.”

“I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.”

“The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy”

“The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up”

“I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

“It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.”

“That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.”

“A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.”

Source : Usenet message to Linus Torvalds, January 30, 1992.

“I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You lose with potential.  You win with performance.”