"This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."

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Source : "A Quarter Century of UNIX". Book by Peter H. Salus, 1980.

Douglas McIlroy

#Philosophy Quotes #Writing Quotes #Working Together Quotes

“The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.”
“Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.311, The Floating Press
“This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.”
“We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.”

Source : "What kind of mandate should “the right” have supported?". marginalrevolution.com. June 20, 2012.
“Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.”
“If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future.”
“It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.”
“Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.”

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