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

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.

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

However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

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

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.

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