I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.
-- Rob Pike, on X.
Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be
gone in two years. He was half right.
-- Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie is twice as bright as Steve Jobs, and only half wrong.
-- Jim Gettys
-- Rob Pike, on X.
Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be
gone in two years. He was half right.
-- Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie is twice as bright as Steve Jobs, and only half wrong.
-- Jim Gettys
Related:
- 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... - If you fill a vacuum, it can still suck.
--
Dennis... - Quote #193
Was it Ritchie or Thompson who said about X:
"Sometimes, when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks"... - I said I'm two and a half billion years old because when I was
young the earth was two billion years old and now it is four and a half
billion years old so I must be two and a half billion years old.
Paul... - I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party.
Dennis... - Psst. Dennis Ritchie is a closet
Pascal user... - demigod: n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation,
and a major role in the development of at least one...
