Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
APL is a natural extension of assembler language programming; ...and is best for educational purposes. -- A. Perlis | |
It is possible by ingenuity and at the expense of clarity... {to do almost anything in any language}. However, the fact that it is possible to push a pea up a mountain with your nose does not mean that this is a sensible way of getting it there. Each of these techniques of language extension should be used in its proper place. -- Christopher Strachey | |
... that the notions of "hardware", and "software" should be extended by the notion of LIVEWARE - being that which produces software for use on hardware. This produces an obvious extension to the concept of MONITORS. A liveware monitor is a person dedicated to the task of ensuring that the liveware does not interfere with the real-time processes, invoking the REAL-TIME EXECUTIONER to delete liveware that adversely affects ... -- Linden and Wihelminalaan | |
Connector Conspiracy, n: [probably came into prominence with the appearance of the KL-10, none of whose connectors match anything else] The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension, programmers or purveyors of anything) to come up with new products which don't fit together with the old stuff, thereby making you buy either all new stuff or expensive interface devices. | |
H. L. Mencken's Law: Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach. Martin's Extension: Those who cannot teach -- administrate. | |
Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean. | |
Taxes, n.: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an extension. | |
Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of anybody's ego. | |
"In a way they were right the basics of operating systems, and by extension the Linux kernel, were well understood by the early 70s; anything after that has been to some degree an exercise in self-gratification." -- Linus Torvalds (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | |
<ExMachina> glQuakeIIIRendererMode(GL_TRUE) <Knghtbrd> ExMachina: isn't that part of the extension which provides glDriverBugs(GL_FALSE); ? <Siigron> Knghtbrd: no, glDriverBugs() is part of EXT_help_me. <Siigron> which also contains glMakeItWork(GL_PLEASE); |