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Quotes from In the Beginning... was the Command Line — Neal Stephenson

born 1959 United States

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Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.

In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)

These changes in identity and location can easily become nested inside each other, many layers deep, even if you aren't doing anything nefarious. Once you have forgotten who and where you are, the whoami command is indispensable.

In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neal Stephenson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.