Linux Computers

Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.

Building translators is good clean fun.
                -- T. Cheatham

Bus error -- driver executed.

Bus error -- please leave by the rear door.

But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the
system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed,
analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
                -- Bruce Leverett, "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"

But this has taken us far afield from interface, which is not a bad
place to be, since I particularly want to move ahead to the kludge.
Why do people have so much trouble understanding the kludge?  What
is a kludge, after all, but not enough K's, not enough ROM's, not
enough RAM's, poor quality interface and too few bytes to go around?
Have I explained yet about the bytes?

"But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?"

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
                -- P.J. Plauger, "Computer Language", 1988, April
                   Fool's column.

BYTE editors are people who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then
carefully print the chaff.

Byte your tongue.