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

Everything fails, all the time.

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].

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.

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

Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

I like routine. It enables me to improvise.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.