Linux Computers

To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System.

To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
                -- Robert Heller

To say that UNIX is doomed is pretty rabid, OS/2 will certainly play a role,
but you don't build a hundred million instructions per second multiprocessor
micro and then try to run it on OS/2.  I mean, get serious.
                -- William Zachmann, International Data Corp

To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a
test load.

To those accustomed to the precise, structured methods of conventional
system development, exploratory development techniques may seem messy,
inelegant, and unsatisfying.  But it's a question of congruence:
precision and flexibility may be just as disfunctional in novel,
uncertain situations as sloppiness and vacillation are in familiar,
well-defined ones.  Those who admire the massive, rigid bone structures
of dinosaurs should remember that jellyfish still enjoy their very
secure ecological niche.
                -- Beau Sheil, "Power Tools for Programmers"

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

Today is a good day for information-gathering.  Read someone else's mail file.

Today is the first day of the rest of your lossage.

Tomorrow's computers some time next month.
                -- DEC

Too often people have come to me and said, "If I had just one wish for
anything in all the world, I would wish for more user-defined equations
in the HP-51820A Waveform Generator Software."
                -- Instrument News
                [Once is too often.  Ed.]