====== Unix Quotes ====== > With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge.\\ -- Peter J. Schoenster > If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.\\ -- Scott Adams > How do I type "for i in *.dvi; do xdvi $i; done" in a GUI?\\ -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces. > Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.\\ -- Eric Allman > Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.\\ -- Unknown > There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.\\ -- Jeremy S. Anderson > "unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep" - my daily unix command list\\ -- Unknown > Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.\\ -- Dennis Ritchie > UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.\\ -- Doug Gwyn > A good magician never reveals his secret; the unbelievable trick becomes simple and obvious once it is explained. So too with UNIX.\\ -- Unknown > Beaten paths are for beaten men.\\ -- Unix Shell Programming > That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible.\\ -- John William Chambless > Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice.\\ -- Craig E. Groeschel > Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.\\ -- Henry Spencer > UNIX is like sex: If you don't know it, you don't miss is. But if you know it, you'll need it.\\ -- Lars Eilebrecht > We know Linux is the best, it can do infinite loops in five seconds.\\ -- Linus Torvalds > In retrospect, we can see that the ideas within Unix served as the basis of modern operating system design. Still, I suspect that the original Unix programmers did not fully understand the significance of what they had invented; for Unix is nothing less than a way of thinking: a modern implementation of the nucleus of human creativity.\\ -- Harley Hahn > Live with Unix long enough and you will change. You will become more creative, and you will come to understand the spirit of creation in others.\\ -- Harley Hahn > More than any other computer system today, Unix will repay every moment that you spend learning and experimenting.\\ -- Harley Hahn > Unix is easy to use, but difficult to learn. Unix is a set of tools for smart people.\\ -- Harley Hahn > Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and Linux has retarded it by 20.\\ -- Dennis Ritchie > I remarked to Dennis [Ritchie] that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out [of Unix]. If there’s an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, ‘Hey, reboot it.’"\\ -- Tom Van Vleck > Unix never says 'please'.\\ -- Rob Pike ====== Random Data ====== > Smash forehead on keyboard to continue... > Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue... > ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI. > Ethernet (n): Something used to catch the etherbunny.