Quotes of the week

And we do make plenty of mistakes. And when we fix them, we have to maintain bug-compatibility to allow live migration from the broken version to the good version. If you're ever feeling overly happy, do some compat work in qemu and it will suck a year's worth or two of your life force a pop.

Application developers have historically been intolerant of systems that change their security policy on the fly. No, let me say what I really mean. They hate them with a flaming passion. Sometimes the system requirements make it necessary, but please don't think the application developers will thank you for it.

Its always easier short term to pee in the pond than install a toilet - it's just not a good long term plan.

If you start a benchmark and you don't know what the answer should be, at the very least within a factor of 10 and ideally within a factor of 2, you shouldn't be running the benchmark. Well, maybe you should, they are fun. But you sure as heck shouldn't be publishing results unless you know they are correct.