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Okay, I understood about 90% of this and only recognized 50% of the names. Not too bad for a Mac user... <a href="http://fscked.itsari.org/pearls.php">Linux Quotes of Humour</a>. Duplicate in the Read More.
heh.. I closed my eyes while sneezing, and meanwhile 40 new posts from lkml populate my inbox|*|-- skuld on #kernelnewbies|*||*| |*|I was reaching out of my mother's womb when she was 3 months along and ground out a preemptively multitasking object VM pagecache-based VFS SMP+NUMA-aware by means of nothing but pure lockless algorithms -based with checkpointing and hotplug everything kernel from scratch for a PDP-10. |*|-- wli on #offtopic|*||*| |*|"All my ideas are absolutely brilliant, until somebody points out why they can't work."|*|-- Linus Torvalds on LKML (26/09/2002)|*|blurbing about "sticky pages" support in the vm|*||*| |*|"Remember me being called LIAR by PINHEAD?"|*|-- Andre Hedrick in linux-kernel|*||*| |*|"Still wondering why they called it 'United Linux'. Firstly it sounds like a football team and secondly wouldn't 'Turbo Susiva' have sounded much better 8)"|*|-- Alan Cox, on his diary, airing his views on United Linux|*||*| |*|"A billion flies _CAN_ be wrong. I'd rather eat lamb chops than shit"|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"The more I practice, the luckier I get"|*|-- Daniel Phillips, in LKML, quoting Minnesota Fats most famous quote|*||*| |*|"Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot -- Rusty Russel"|*|-- Rusty Russel in his... signature on LKML.|*||*| |*|"I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less."|*|-- Linus Torvalds on Craig Mundie's "shared source" speech.|*||*| |*|"You want brutality and heuristics? I'll give you brutality and heuristics..."|*|-- Eric S. Raymond|*||*| |*|"And I doubt complaining to the author gets you anything but a free procmail rule."|*|-- Alan Cox on asking authors to document their code|*||*| |*|"I'm sweating like a pig..."|*|-- Jens Axboe in #kernelnewbies|*||*| |*|"Given enough thrust any pig will fly, but it's not necessarilly a good idea."|*|-- Al Viro|*||*| |*|"If I have trouble installing Linux, something is wrong. Very wrong."|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"Now I know why you say so little in person, you mouth is in a NOP because the brain is always inserting requests at the top of the list_head."|*|-- Andre Hedrick on Alan Cox|*||*| |*|"Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you don't actually get anything DONE."|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta."|*|-- Larry McVoy|*||*| |*|"...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero outside"|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"THIS time it really is fixed. I mean, how many times can we get it wrong? At some point, we just have to run out of really bad ideas.."|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"And I'm right. I'm always right, but in this case I'm just a bit more right than I usually am."|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"You are welcome to your opinion. I've got this great bridge to sell you too."|*|-- Alan Cox to someone recommending the NVidia drivers|*||*| |*|"Rusty? Help me out, and I won't ever call "netfilter" a heap of stinking dung again. Do we have a deal?"|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"An innovation a day keeps the monopolist away"|*|-- Alan Cox when releasing linux-2.4.1ac19|*||*| |*|"Actually you would still need the other fixes otherwise you might as well put the root password in /etc/motd"|*|-- Alan Cox pointing out some security holes in binfmt_misc|*||*| |*|"I have a simple rule in life: If I don't understand something, it must be bad.|*|-- Linus Torvalds|*||*| |*|"You don't seem to have a paid 24hr response contract with me."|*|-- Alan Cox, to an impatient luser trying to get help with IDE|*||*| |*|"Tweaking your code and sacrificing chickens until you happen to get the output you want is no substitute for fixing the compiler. And it's a waste of good chickens."|*|-- David Woodhouse , on fixing concatenated strings|*||*| |*|"I saw 'write reference' and my brain translated that to 'write()'. I blame the long weekend."|*|-- Keith Owens, on mmap documentation|*||*| |*|"Even though some people probably take a valium or two before they dare open emails from Al"|*|-- Linus Torvalds, yet again on IDE mess|*||*| |*|"But in other areas we have people like Al Viro, who can drive grown men to cry (and drink)"|*|-- Linus Torvalds, on IDE mess