Quote Archive

People always tell you to be humble, be humble, be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great? To be amazing. To be awesome.

— Kanye West

I like elephants and God likes elephants.

— Terry A Davis

Quite frankly, SSE’s alignment requirement is the most utterly retarded idea since eating your own shit.

— Theo de Raadt

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

— Dennis Ritchie

Am I venturing into the fashion industry? Do you see this coat?

— Kanye West

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

— Rob Pike

My hero walks on water.

— Brian Dobson

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

— Larry Wall

IDE features are language smells.

— Reg Braithwaite

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it’s very useful.

— Rob Pike

If everytime someone asks you a question, you try to say the right answer, your entire life is a test.

— Kanye West

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly

— Henry Spencer

It took 69 single steps to get past a BOOST_FOREACH() statement. Madness.

— John Carmack

Just keep on complaining, maybe you’ll find out it will get you nowhere but where you are now: in second place.

— Ronnie Coleman

Pour la métrique grossière tout les points sont égaux.

— Tristan Riveiro

Plan 9 looks like it was written by experts; Linux looks like something my students could aspire to write.

— unknown

I recommend the linux people to call it “GNU / Linux” instead of “GNU/Linux”. never hurts to distance yourself from GNU.

— mjl on #plan9-social