Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.

— Linus Torvalds, Bugzilla discussion of a memcpy() fix (2010)

Source: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129

From a 2010 Bugzilla comment on a memcpy() fix that broke flash.

Topics: software engineering