Alan Cox

Alan Cox (born July 22, 1968) is an English computer programmer involved in the development of the Linux kernel.

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• A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines.
  • http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0106.2/0405.html

• Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.
  • http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/12/1/110