At around 11/11/06 5:22 pm, Dan Scanlan wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
>> In the belly of the beast, it's hard to see the forest for the trees.
>
> how about...
>
> "Some guys can't see the forest for all the board feet." -- Rodd Gnawkin
>
IIRC, at the Labs the following bit about the power of Unix was commonly
attributed to Kernighan(*): Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself
in the foot.
--ravi
(*) It was probably someone else who said it first, but Kernighan is the
sort of person that you can visualize saying something like that.
