Daily Fortunes

Mar 16, 2019

I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel...
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) (Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)

"I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's...
"I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't." (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center)

"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated...
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

"I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about...
"I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.." (Linus Torvalds in response to a bug report.) > I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.. Disquieting ... (Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing...

I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last...
I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few months. I just love debugging ;-) (Linus Torvalds)

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