Douglas Gwyn quotes
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”
-- Douglas GwynSource : "Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions?". Douglas Gwyn's post in USENET newsgroup comp.org.usenix, groups.google.com. July 3, 1991.
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“Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.”
-- Douglas GwynSource : "Introducing Regular Expressions". Book by Michael Fitzgerald, 2012.
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“GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.”
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“After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.”
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Source : Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.”
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“Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.”
Source : Ari Marmell (2012). “Darksiders: The Abomination Vault”, p.99, Del Rey
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“Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.”
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