Tom Duff

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Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.
- Tom Duff
Collection: Hands
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Whenever possible, steal code.
- Tom Duff
Collection: Stealing
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With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.
- Tom Duff
Collection: Running
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Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.
- Tom Duff
Collection: Hands
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Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.
- Tom Duff
Collection: Shells
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How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
- Tom Duff
Collection: Funny
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The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].
- Tom Duff
Collection: Learning