Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple
of more feet, just to be sure.
-- Eric Allman
... We make rope.
-- Rob Gingell on Sun Microsystem's new virtual memory.
of more feet, just to be sure.
-- Eric Allman
... We make rope.
-- Rob Gingell on Sun Microsystem's new virtual memory.
Related:
- The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to
hang yourself.
And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure... - A conservative sees a man drowning fifty feet from shore.
The conservative throws the man a rope 25 feet long... - Give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself. Teach a man to make rope,
he'll hang other people... - When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on,
and swing... - The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great
height but just above the ground.
It seems more designed to make people stumble than... - Commandant: Next up ... Simp-son, Lis-a.
[the crowd falls silent.
The cadet leader plays, "Taps." Lisa climbs... - Some people wouldn't be happy if you hung them with
a new rope... - Quote #356
"Larry Wall should be shot. Along with Bill Joy and Eric Allman."
-
Daniel Finster, comp.lang.lisp "Why, just because...
From the same category:
- A one track mind often has a derailed train of
thought... - Pain is just nature's way of telling you you're
alive... - Oh, rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold... - If you weren't my teacher, I'd think you just deleted all my files.
an anonymous UCB CS student, to an instructor who had... - Life is just a bed of
roses...
