Jan Wolter
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Jan Wolter (born January 31, 1959) is a freelance software developer. He is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Wolter has written software which is featured on the public access Unix systems Grex and Arbornet. He has written Party, Orville Write, Backtalk, Bank, Gate, and several other utilities which are used on those systems. His free software can be downloaded from his web page.
Jan Wolter holds a Ph.D in computer science, and was previously a faculty member at Texas A&M University.
[edit] Quotation
A comment excerpted from a 1995 Usenet newsgroup posting by Jan Wolter has been widely quoted and included on lists of famous quotations:
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- It's important to remember that just because there are crooks, zealots and morons supporting a position, it does not automatically follow that the position is wrong.
[edit] References
- Wish I'd Said That (quotation archive)
- Quotation Station: Wisdom
- Crooks, Zealots and Morons (Jan Wolter's discussion of how his quote apparently spread)
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