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

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.

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.

I can see time, " whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

I always want to sleep on the third date.

Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.

I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.