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Quotes of the week
Stupid bugs only appear endearing in retrospect.
-- Linus Torvalds
In Linux we reject _lots_ of code, and that's the only way to
create a quality kernel. It's a bit like evolutionary selection:
breathtakingly wasteful and incredibly efficient at the same time.
-- Ingo Molnar
Apologies to those of you looking for selections from the ill-advised run of limericks recently posted on linux-kernel; interested readers can find most of them in this thread. (Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 4:53 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] The limericks might have been ill-advised, but come on, Alan Cox's filk of "Eleanor Rigby" wassheer genius!
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 13:05 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link] If you want to be spared the pain of the other contributions, said filk is at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization... (and it really is good).
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 13:17 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link] this link worked better for me:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualizatio...
(the other one was the top of the thread)
it is quite well done!
jake
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 9, 2007 1:53 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link] Indeed. Sorry...
Looking back, July 26 clearly wasn't a good day for me. :(
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 13:35 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I think the real explanation lies in Alan's being rude about the no-poem policy... in limerick form ;}
(Welsh limericks forming an adventure game woven into the kernel source. ISAGN, even if I couldn't understand them...)
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 7:21 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link] The poems were great!
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 9:50 UTC (Thu) by mjr (subscriber, #6979) [Link] ...only thing is, evolution is anything but incredibly efficient.
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 13:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Hence the 'breathtakingly wasteful' part.
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2007 16:49 UTC (Thu) by johnkarp (subscriber, #39285) [Link] The LWN quote of the week—Alan Cox
Quotes of the week
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 3, 2007 17:59 UTC (Fri) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link] There was a young coder named CoxWhose limericks for geeks did rox Good was the rhyming As was the timing But the QotW still blox.
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