Tom Duff Quotes

• Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

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  Hands, Library, Devil

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• Whenever possible, steal code.

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  Stealing, Code

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• With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

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  Running, Diligence, Programming

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• Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

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  Hands, Use, Done

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• Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

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  Shells, Examination, Littles

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• How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.

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  Funny, Science, Technology

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• The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

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  Learning, Broken, Example

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