Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist
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Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors
“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”
— Umberto Eco, book Foucault's Pendulum
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
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