quotes(1) General Commands Manual quotes(1)

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"RMS is to Unix, like Hitler [was] to Nietzsche."

— Federico Benavento

“Never work.”

— Guy Debord

"X-Windows: ...Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems."

— Unix-Haters Handbook

“The way it was characterized politically, you had copyright, which is what the big companies use to lock everything up; you had copyleft, which is free software's way of making sure they can't lock it up; and then Berkeley had what we called ‘copycenter’, which is ‘take it down to the copy center and make as many copies as you want’.”

— Kirk McKusick

"Guns are not suckless"

— Nusrat

"I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."

— Daniel J Bernstein

"No, *all* things in Plan 9 were so I could write a windowing system the way I wanted"

— Rob Pike

May 16, 2026 shrub