Too bad there wasn’t a “Like” or “+1” button for mentioning Chuck Yerkes.
Must be 10 years since he died. 

gg


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On Jun 10, 2014, at 1:06 AM, Dennis Davis 
<dennisdavis+openbsd-m...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, John D. Verne wrote:
> 
>> From: John D. Verne <j...@clevermonkey.org>
>> To: misc@openbsd.org
>> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 01:37:53
>> Subject: Re: Vision 2020: Making OpenBSD the world's fastest OS
> 
> ...
> 
>>> Probably the biggest reason OpenBSD will never be the fastest
>>> OS around is the simple fact that when optimizing for speed,
>>> you sacrifice other things.  Like security.  Security, or
>>> correctness, means you are looking for the most reliable way to
>>> do something, not the fastest.  Mechanisms like pro-police (or
>>> a new name for it?) are going to slow things down a little.  I
>>> think Theo said that all the security systems slow a system down
>>> by less than 5%.  I believe that.  The effect isn't huge but
>>> some would call that too much.
>> 
>> Indeed.
>> 
>> Good, fast, or cheap.  Choose any two.
> 
> To go somewhat off-topic, I'm reminded of one of the quotes of the
> late Chuck Yerkes:
> 
> Shirt, Shoes, Sober... -- pick two.
>   -- Chuck Yerkes
> 
> Chuck was a long-time contributor to this list and OpenBSD.  The
> above quote amuses me.
> -- 
> Dennis Davis <dennisda...@fastmail.fm>

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