A lot of the machines that Google is built on–commodity is the polite word for them–they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.
-
Jessica Livingston
Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging–to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.
-
Jessica Livingston
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
-
Jaron Lanier
You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.
-
Scott Simpson
More Quotes By Jaron Lanier
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human mind, or you can believe we just don't understand what quality in a mind is yet, even though we might someday....
The reason [James Clerk] Maxwell's Demon cannot exist is that it does take resources to perform an act of discrimination. We imagine computation is free, but it never is. The very act of choosing which particle is cold or hot itself becomes an energy drain...
The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested. It might start to happen in the next decade or so. Google and other companies are scanning library books into the cloud in...
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
