Tom Duff Professions : Computer programmer Born : December 8, 1952 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Tom Duff Whenever possible, steal code. Tom Duff code stealing Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand. Tom Duff library devil hands With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly. Tom Duff programming diligence running Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer. Tom Duff done use hands How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury. Tom Duff technology funny science The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible]. Tom Duff learning broken example Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. Tom Duff shells examination littles Similar Authors Bruce Perens computer-programmer Brian Behlendorf computer-programmer Bram Cohen computer-programmer Andrew Tridgell computer-programmer Douglas Crockford computer-programmer Aaron Swartz computer-programmer All Authors