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• You are not expected to understand this: [UNIX] cav.
  The canonical comment describing something {magic} or too complicated to bother explaining properly....
• Lions Book n. "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions.
  The two parts of this book contained (1) the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and (2) a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms....
• Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
• Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
• In his '90 Usenix presentation, Dennis Ritchie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that X-windows was brain-dead and would soon die.
  He was half-right. Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks....
• No comment is a comment.
• From an operating system research point of view, Unix is -- if not dead -- certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.
• Hi, this is Linus Torvalds speaking, your Benevolent Dictator.
  I'm typing * this today to talk about EyeOpener(tm) brand caffeinated beverages, for * those really, really, _really_ long nights of kernel hacking....