morris

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Editorial note

The Morris worm is on that list; Robert Morris is a partner at Y Combinator.

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Quick take

A morris dance.

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The clearest senses and uses of morris gathered in one view.

noun

A morris dance.

verb

To perform morris dancing.

noun

A male given name from Old French, a medieval form of French Maurice.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for morris.

noun

A morris dance.

verb

To perform morris dancing.

noun

A male given name from Old French, a medieval form of French Maurice.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Example sentences

The Morris worm is on that list; Robert Morris is a partner at Y Combinator.

There've been cases of big companies suing whole countries (Philip Morris vs Australia comes to mind).

Especially the development tools: the Morris worm enabled portability by distributing itself in source code form then building its binary on its target hosts.

And woe to the country with a smaller GDP than Phillip Morris who decides to try to put restrictions on a pack of smokes.

Assuming all of technology investing doesn't crumble at once, which it won't, so long as the entire thing isn't built in smoke, Morris and dreams.

Philip Morris became Altria, not The Aluminum Company of America.

And yet Morris sat on his data for years.

I have mathematician friend who won't ever play Nine Men's Morris because it's a solved game, so it's not longer interesting for him.

While I have received some helpful advice from Tony Morris on the Scalaz mailing list, I think that attitudes like his are poisonous.

The Morris Worm, of course, was from 1988.

Clicking on your website instantly reminded me of this note in a PG essay: --- Viaweb wasn't the first startup Robert Morris and I started.

Back in the 80s before the morris worm and spam, when the internet was just for us geeks, you could usually connect to anyone's mail server on port 25 and hand it mail to be delivered just about anywhere.

Quote examples

Lets not mince words; it's not "somebody like Tony Morris", it's just Tony Morris.

Indeed countermeasures to the section about "immunization" was the reason the Morris worm spread so far so fast.

When he wrote it up, he claimed it followed the blueprint of the "microscope and tweezers" paper Spafford wrote about the Morris worm.

Contrast ""And yet Morris sat on his data for years.

Proper noun examples

That doesn't mean I have to like Harrah's or afford them any more respect and affection than I afford to Phillip Morris.

Since Ohanian has been talking startups with PG about as long as anyone except people like Morris, it would not be surprising if he was likewise fluent in the DSL.