#ck

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#capable #capacity #comparable #could #development

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#casually #completely #coordinating #different #different way

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small! ↗

— Noel Redding

#because #called #first #got #i

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#go #grow #grow up #into #journalism

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#films #glaring #hate #mistakes #most

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#airs #also #because #beloved #car

I built my marriage brick by brick. And I destroyed it blanket by blanket.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction. ↗

— Rob Reiner

#direction #forward #i #process #right

A blanket could be used to not only make promises, but fulfill them too. They're so soft and warm, how could they not be used in this manner?  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children. ↗