Tom Duff famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.
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The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].
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With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.
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Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.
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Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.
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How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff
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I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
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We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.
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Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
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To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.
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sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
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Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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