Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

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.

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

What are the rules," The cop said. "There are none." Vishous spread his stance and braced himself. "Do whatever you want...but you have to break me. You've got to tear me apart.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.