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

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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.

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.

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 only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

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