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gvb on Feb 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 10.7 Lion allows multi-user remote computing

It's not just you, Henry Spencer reportedly said it (first?) in 1987.

"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Quotes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer#cite_note-2

thwarted on Feb 28, 2011 [–]

He was just paraphrasing the bible:

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." -- Ecclesiastes 1:9

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