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"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."
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"A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger."
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"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
Beginning
"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
Innovation
"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."
Beginning
"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."
Home
"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."
Technology
"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers."
Technology
"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them."
Environment
"In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe."
Thinking
"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."
Computer
"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."
Success
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