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[Okay, so there aren't ten of them, but they are all quotes from
the recent Usenix/LISA conference in San Diego. All quotes, as well as
authors' names, are used with permission. -AA]
"Someone in the back row, raise your hand."
- Steve Shumway (shumway@central.sun.com),
making sure his mike was working
"We have the most [thorough] test guy in the world... [I showed him
this program and he asked,] 'but Rob, what if time runs backward?'"
- Rob Kolstad (kolstad@sun.com)
"Those Macintoshes aren't the cute little boxes you think they are."
- Elizabeth Zwicky (zwicky@erg.sri.com)
"I will not be presenting this talk in rap."
- Arch Mott (amott@mips.com)
"I like having a machine called 'elvis' on the network because
that way, I can say 'ping elvis' and have it come back with 'elvis is
alive'."
- Carl Shipley (carl@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov)
{ed And Sun Network Adm manual}
"Could I have optimized [this script] for legibility? Yes, but then
I would have had to use more slides."
- Tom Christiansen (tchrist@convex.com)
"I don't know why I didn't use an underbar here. Maybe it would have
made my line wrap or something."
- Tom Christiansen (tchrist@convex.com)
"You know, we really ought to do accounting on the Unix boxes. It
should be a ten-minute hack..."
- Former group head, 1987, quoted by John
Simonson (gort@cc.rochester.edu)
(From the "Rest" of RHF)
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