"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad."

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Rob Pike

#Smell Quotes #Programming Quotes #Starting Quotes

“People expect you to be with stars like BeyoncÃ©. Obviously she's amazing, but you can't get starstruck as there's too much build-up to it. It's like, 'Clear the corridor so she can walk down it!' And she's like some fembot. There's too much faff and you end up thinking, 'Who cares?' If I was chatting to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about chickens I'd be much more excited, as I love him.”
“The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.”
“He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.”
“You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.”
“We all know that something is eternal. And it ainâ€™t houses and it ainâ€™t names, and it ainâ€™t earth, and it ainâ€™t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet youâ€™d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. Thereâ€™s something way down deep thatâ€™s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN”
“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
“When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.”
“Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”

Source : "Rosetta mission: Philae craft may have bounced during comet landing - as it happened" by Stuart Clark, James Kingsland, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2014.

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