-- Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates
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Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux
- -- unknown source
+ -- Unknown source
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Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The
phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up"
-- Linus Torvalds ( Unsourced )
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+Actually, typing random strings in the Finder does the equivalent of
+filename completion.
+ -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands: file
+ completion vs. the Mac Finder.
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+Anyone who thinks UNIX is intuitive should be forced to write 5000 lines of
+code using nothing but vi or emacs. AAAAACK!
+(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially
+Emacs.)
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+It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God.
+
+ -- Matt Welsh
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+There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a
+threaded news reader.
+
+ -- Unknown source
+%
-Actually, typing random strings in the Finder does the equivalent of
-filename completion.
- -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands: file
- completion vs. the Mac Finder.
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-"All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..."
-(By Larry Wall)
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-Anyone who thinks UNIX is intuitive should be forced to write 5000 lines of
-code using nothing but vi or emacs. AAAAACK!
-(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially
-Emacs.)
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-"Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of
-reliable, well-engineered commercial software?"
-(By Matt Welsh)
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-Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux
-(Unknown source)
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-"It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God."
-(By Matt Welsh)
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linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
(ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on T-shirts in '93)
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Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.
(By komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu, Mark Komarinski)
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-"Linux: the operating system with a CLUE...
-Command Line User Environment".
-(seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)
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'Mounten' wird fuer drei Dinge benutzt: 'Aufsitzen' auf Pferde, 'einklinken'
von Festplatten in Dateisysteme, und, nun, 'besteigen' beim Sex.
(Christa Keil in a German posting: "Mounting is used for three things:
climbing on a horse, linking in a hard disk unit in data systems, and, well,
mounting during sex".)
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-"Note that if I can get you to \"su and say\" something just by asking,
-you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should
-look into it."
-(By Paul Vixie, vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes)
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"On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT"
(Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restrugo@fateware.com)
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-There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a
-threaded news reader.
-(Unknown source)
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-quit When the quit statement is read, the bc processor
- is terminated, regardless of where the quit state-
- ment is found. For example, "if (0 == 1) quit"
- will cause bc to terminate.
-(Seen in the manpage for "bc". Note the "if" statement's logic)
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Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only
be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on.
(Unknown source)
being struck by lightning."
(By Matt Welsh)
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-"Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, white
-light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In
-a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM
-FOR THE 386."
-(Matt Welsh)
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"We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds."
(Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam
Linux Symposium)
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