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A comment on The Twelve Networking Truths.

Re:The Twelve Networking Truths by typhonic on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:36AM (#10492349)
"In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." This seems like a good chance to acknowledge the author, Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
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Re:The Twelve Networking Truths by nmc on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:50AM (#10492452)
St-Exupéry never mentioned "protocol design". This is a pastiche, not a plagiary.

As to why St-Exupéry's name was not included, I suppose the editor thought the reference was obvious, which it is indeed.

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Re:The Twelve Networking Truths by jacobolus on Monday November 02, 2015 @01:38PM (#10493966)
Anyone in technology should read the whole chapter 3 of Wind, Sand and Stars, if they haven’t before:

http://pastie.org/pastes/10477072/text

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