"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."

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Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Eric S. Raymond

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“So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which DÃ¼rer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.”
“I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.”
“Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.”
“I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.”

Source : "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.
“Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.62, Lulu.com
“You can shoot a show and have it not air. It's not real until it's airing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I would say that all successful people are "fighters." They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.”

Source : Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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