On the other hand, those that understand UNIX all too well, are doomed to recreate and use it ad infinitum, in lieu of creating something better.
At least the ACTUAL developers of UNIX created Plan 9, they didn't put their hands up and said "this is how you do things, no improvements can be made".
For example, when I see the lame "it's how it was always done", arguments against a sane FS hierarchy like the one gobolinux attempts at, I want to tear my hair off.
--Henry Spencer
Which can then be turned into:
"Programmers who do not understand history are doomed to reimplement it - poorly" - http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/what-good-is-a-cs-deg...
I thought both of them were good sayings to keep in mind, while reading the above post.