#mac

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#hackers #machines #new #opened #others

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities. ↗

— R.M. Jones

#intimacy #mysticism #experience

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#letters #funny

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#covering #empty #farther #go #into

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years. ↗

— Burt Reynolds

#many #only #stomach #years #you

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. ↗

— Keith Richards

#had #how #invent #life #machinery

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#defining #developing #doing #done #else

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines