Wietse Venema Quotes

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.

I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case. He ought to get special privileges from the government, a tariff, this, that and the other thing.