Source: Bios (1999), Chapter 19 (p. 164)
“XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist.”
Linus Torvalds - Google+ (As a reply in the comments section), Torvalds, Linus, 2014-03-06, 2014-03-07 https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV,
2010s, 2014
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Linus Torvalds
(1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, 2007-09-06, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-09-22 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918,
2000s, 2007
Robert Floyd
(1936–2001) American computer scientist
1978 Turing Award Citation https://web.archive.org/web/20070708004814/http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4173633&srt=all&aw=140&ao=AMTURING.
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“I just make crap up more than anything else.”
Brian K. Vaughan
(1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator
Ain't It Cool News interview
“People will believe in just about any kind of superstitious crap nowadays.”
Michael Swanwick
(1950) American science fiction author
Source: In the Drift (1985), Chapter 5, “Marrow Death” (p. 152)
“I think I just became psychic," he said. "Holy crap.”
Rachel Caine
(1962) American writer
Source: Ghost Town
Theodore Sturgeon
(1918–1985) American speculative fiction writer
Venture Science Fiction (March 1958) The original expression of this has often been declared to have been "Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud." According to Philip Klass Sturgeon made the remark during a talk at New York University around 1951. It has also commonly appeared in variant forms such as "Ninety percent of everything is crap" and is often referred to as "Sturgeon's Law" — though he himself gave that title to another phrase:
Variant: Ninety percent of everything is crud.
Context: I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.
The Revelation: Ninety percent of everything is crud.
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.
Corollary 2: The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.