“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” “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.” -- Probably about Unix. “The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.” -- This is so true and insightful. No other way. [As I understand it, a larger system made up of small modules interconnected through well-defined interfaces is still quite good.] “XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files” -- I need to shake this guy's hand. “I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking five times and then having to convince the system that you really, truly, mean it and this is not a mistake and that you are consenting adult over 18 and that you completely understand the consequences and you still want to do it.” “A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.” “Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.” “A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.”