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Interface Quotes by Douglas McIlroy
- This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text…
- Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
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- I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. — Jeff Bezos