Quotes of the week
I think the lesson we can all draw is that architectural decisions
made for political strategy reasons are of limited utility.
Eventually, code designed for technical superiority will
become more popular than code with features missing for "strategic
reasons". If you want the more popular code to be free software, and
if you want it to be GPLed software, then you must assure that your
alternative is technically as good as it can be and suits the needs of
its users as well as it can.
— Perry E. Metzger
That’s about as comprehensible as Vorlon poetry to me.
— John
Goerzen, after reading the cgmanager man page.
My guess is that robots are expensive to build and maintain; people are self-replicating and largely self-maintaining. Remember that third input to the factory, 'rice'? Any robot’s spare parts have to be cheaper than rice to earn a place on this factory’s floor.
— Bunnie Huang (Thanks to Paul Wise.)
Spaghetti is beautiful and delicious and shouldn’t be used as a
metaphor for circuitous code. Say “headphone cables code”
instead.
— Jeff Waugh
We're now in the uncanny valley of software progress.
— Geoffrey
Thomas (Different set of thanks to Paul Wise.)