"UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate."

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Source : "Modern Operating Systems". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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“Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.”
“Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons
“I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. "This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound." "You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better.”
“Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.”

Source : Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Album: Killing Me Softly
“Beauty only happens once.”
“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.”
“I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.”

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