Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

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.

She had on a blue bonnet, and with a pair of lovely eyes of the same colour, has contrived to make me feel devilish odd about the heart.

There is always a solution to any challenging situation.

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.

I'm a terrible dancer! I dance like a guy who is trying to dance.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

Never say never! I'm open to trying new things.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

It was a typical day of suckage and blowage.’ (Chris)