“ You know, Arthur when I worked at IBM, I learned that it’s important to listen to your customers; and it’s even more important to disregard what they say, and do the right thing.
Memories of Ken Iverson - Arthur Whitney
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“ Regression testing”? What’s that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect.
Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
“ Those that can, do. Those that can’t, complain.
Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
“ Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
“ My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
“ If you like using cvs, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.
Plastic SCM blog: Linus Torvalds on GIT and SCM
“ For the first 10 years of kernel maintenance, we literally used tarballs and patches, which is a much superior source control management system than CVS is, but I did end up using CVS for 7 years at a commercial company [Transmeta[7]] and I hate it with a passion. When I say I hate CVS with a passion, I have to also say that if there are any SVN (Subversion) users in the audience, you might want to leave. Because my hatred of CVS has meant that I see Subversion as being the most pointless project ever started. The slogan of Subversion for a while was “CVS done right”, or something like that, and if you start with that kind of slogan, there’s nowhere you can go. There is no way to do CVS right.
Git (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
