Quotes of the week

It can be hard to realize "this piece of your code is utter *expletive*" actually means "I think the general concept is okay, but you need to rethink this piece of your code, and I think you can make it work."

On the other hand, after grad school, this is second nature.

Also historically ignoring hardware vendor management chains has always led to better drivers. Not saying that some vendors don't have competent engineers (many do, many don't), but as soon as management gets involved in decisions about drivers all hope is lost.