Tom Christiansen famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.
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C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.
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Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
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If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.
-- Tom Christiansen
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I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
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Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this
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I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
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