A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

We are the world, we are the children.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.