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Quote #193 Was It Ritchie Or Thompson Who Said About X
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Was it Ritchie or Thompson who said about X:
"Sometimes, when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks"?
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Sometimes when you fill a vacuum it still sucks!
In his '90 Usenix presentation, Dennis Ritchie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that X-windows was brain-dead and would soon die.
He was half-right. Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks....
If you fill a vacuum, it can still suck. -- Dennis Ritchie
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.
-- Rob Pike, on X. Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be gone in two years....
VACUUM-CLEANER Men have traditionally said of vacuum-cleaners "what's that?
New men know what vacuum-cleaners are, even if they've never touched them in the flesh....
Life in a vacuum sucks.
As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name.
-- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie...
When you're an anvil, hold you still; when you're a hammer, strike your fill. -- Ben Frankli