[TUHS] Citation for Spencer quote?
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu Jul 28 12:27:43 AEST 2011
Warren Toomey scripsit:
> Any ideas if/when Henry said this and where: date, first time it appeared
> in print etc.
Searching at Google Groups (which is not a trivial undertaking; posts
found by "Search by relevance" vanish when you search by date) finds
http://groups.google.com/group/news.software.b/browse_thread/thread/64ca4e7650f22ac7/12af7af3e5bef5b9 ,
which is by Henry and dated November 12, 1987. So he definitely
said it. However, it's in his .sig, which may mean that he was simply
quoting someone else unnamed.
> While we are at it, are there any other good Unix quotes that spring
> to mind?
http://www.linfo.org/q_unix.html has some classics including Henry's.
http://nickelkid.net/docs/quotes/unix.html also has good ones once you
scroll down past the Windows quotes.
My former boss Len Silver said, back around 1983: "What you're saying
is that Unix is a local minimum?" He was a physicist turned quant at
a Wall Street firm. "Exactly," said I.
--
Business before pleasure, if not too bloomering long before.
--Nicholas van Rijn
John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
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