A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added.

Everything fails, all the time.

If you’re concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that as a given.

Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].

I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.

I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.