Alan Cox Quotes

Alan Cox is a British computer programmer who has been a key figure in the development of Linux. He maintained the 2.2 branch of the Linux kernel and continues to be heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel, an association that dates back to 1991. He lives in Swansea, Wales, where he lived with his wife Telsa Gwynne, who died in 2015 and now lives with author Tara Neale. He graduated with a BSc in Computer Science from Swansea University in 1991 and received an MBA from the same university in 2005.



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Alan Cox Quotes

“Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.”

Alan Cox

Re: Coding style - a non-issue http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/12/1/110.

“A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines.”

Alan Cox

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0106.2/0405.html.

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