MICHA.ELMUELLER

Think for yourself.
Question authority.

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities – the political, the religious, the educational authorities – who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing – forming in our minds – their view of reality.

To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

—Timothy Leary

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I wrote an article on the UNIX philosohpy for the blog ioexception.de (in german).

The article explains some of the concepts behind modern unix-like operating systems like GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD or Solaris. These concepts are not limited to operating systems, but extend to a general style of developing and working on projects.

UNIX was developed specifically for experts. For people who know what they do and what they want.