Terry Lamber's "Mr. Bullet Mr. Foot" quote...
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Tue Apr 3 07:22:27 UTC 2007
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> I find it hilarious, but can't find much corroborative evidence.
> Thomas Sparrevohn uses something very much like this in his .sig:
>
> "It is not Unix's job to keep you from shooting yourself in the
> foot. If you should choose to do so, it is Unix's job to deliver
> Mr. Bullet to Mr. Foot in the most efficient way it knows."
> --- Terry Lambert
>
> A reasonable amount of googling didn't produce a source file for
> said quote, though, only archived e-mails of Thomas's.
>
> Anyone know anything about it? Context? When, where, got a URI?
I have Terry's quote in my signature collection for nearly
nine years, but slightly different. I don't know if your
above version is misquoted, or if Terry wrote that one in
a different posting. Anyway, this is what Terry wrote on
September 15th 1998 in the freebsd-hackers mailing list:
| "If you aim the gun at your foot and pull the
| trigger, it's UNIX's job to ensure reliable
| delivery of the bullet to where you aimed the
| gun (in this case, Mr. Foot)."
Don't know about your googling skills ;-) but a very quick
search on http://freebsd.rambler.ru (the best FreeBSD list
search engine, IMHO) turns it up as the first hit:
http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-hackers_1998/msg11208.html
> P.S. Hope I spelled "Sparrevohn" correctly. Seamonkey thinks
> it should be spelled "Irrevocable".... :-D
Don't use spell checkers. Most of the time they break the
spelling instead of fixing it. Well, at least that has
been my experience. Personally I prefer to spend half a
minute reading again through what I wrote before sending
it. Much better than a spell checker. Most of my mistakes
are grammar-related, word order or similar, and those
aren't found by a spell checker anyway. :-)
(YMMV, of course.)
Best regards
Oliver
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