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...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.
— Robert K. Tanenbaum
Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointingis impolite. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Human beings are fallible, frightened and prone to corruption.
— Robert K. Tanenbaum
Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
— Gloria Steinem
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...
— Robert K. Tanenbaum
What drives abortion bans and restrictions? The belief that women who have sex for pleasure rather than procreation are sluts.
— Leora Tanenbaum
Valar morghulis.Yes. All men must die, but we are not men. — George R R Martin
While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I've got a job to do.
— Gordon Brown
but there it was. Home was prison was home.
— Robert K. Tanenbaum
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
They don't even look like they're together. At all. Just two strangers who shared an elevator. That poor man. That poor girl.
— Stylo Fantome
I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Fight Features. ... The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Music, arrow to pierce all barriers. Music, the great equalizer. Music, invader of centuries. Nectar of demons, whiskey flask of God.
— Carolina De Robertis
XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Linux is a leprosy; ... This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum