Joe Auricchio

Furthermore, x86 represents a worst case in the areas where it differs significantly from RISC-style processors…

Paul Barham, et al., Xen and the art of virtualization, SOSP 2003. Emphasis original, deliberately taken out of context.

If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that you can always get people to do what they already want to do.

Lawrence Lessig, NYTimes

This is probably only interesting to the folks who’ve taken at least one CAT course…

Danny: “Joe, are you ticklish?”
Me: “NO! F— off!”

I promptly get tickled by six people for a cool minute.

Rushi: “That was probably the worst response possible.”
somebody: “There is no really good response.”
Danny: “Yes: ‘I have diarrhea.’”

That’s the other reason Apple terrifies me. Nothing but Kool-Aid. All the beverages.

Successful institutionalization projects often produce a collective amnesia about their recent origins and possible alternatives.

–Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Amazing Epitaph.

Thanks Ryan!