[Linux-aus] doing The Right Thing (was: User Conference)

Michael Davies michael at msdavies.net
Thu Mar 3 23:47:02 UTC 2005


Leon Brooks said:
> On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:38, Michael Davies wrote:
>> you can never control what others do, instead you can do
>> the right thing yourself and then find an easy solution to
>> your problem.
>
> What an excellent philosophy! It needs framing. (-:

Which is really just a combination of the old Unix mantra, "Be liberal in
what you accept, and strict in what you produce", with the addition of the
1st great virtue of programming[1].

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
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