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Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff (born December 8, 1952) is a computer programmer.

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With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

Diligence, Possible, Programming, Run, Running, Slowly

Whenever possible, steal code.

Stealing, Code, Steal, Whenever, Possible

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.

155, Funny, Percent, Science, Seconds, Technology

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

Devil, Hands, Library, Shared, Sign

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

Code, Examination, Knows, Littles, Nobody, Shells

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

Computer, Done, Hands, Use

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Broken, Example, Learning, Repeatably, Step

Lynda Bellingham

Lynda Bellingham

Peter Damian

Peter Damian

Ada Cambridge

Ada Cambridge

Elaine A. Cannon

Elaine A. Cannon

Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert

Kevin Whately

Kevin Whately

Amanda Ripley

Amanda Ripley

Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel

Masataka Taketsuru

Masataka Taketsuru

Arthur Melvin Okun

Arthur Melvin Okun

John le Carre

John le Carre

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza