Quote #10
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
More from Linus Torvalds
- You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.
- The main reason there are no raw devices [in Linux] is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea.
- If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
- Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an ang…
- Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
- Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
- Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
- :the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it.