Top 14 Distributed System Quotes
#1. A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
Leslie Lamport
#2. Sad hotels existed everywhere, to be sure, but the Dolphin was in a class of its own. The Dolphin Hotel was conceptually sorry. The Dolphin Hotel was tragic.
Haruki Murakami
#3. Create our distributed interface is define and name each of the distributed endpoints in our system
Anonymous
#4. Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.
Frans De Waal
#5. The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#6. One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Marcel Proust
#7. Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#8. I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.
George Allen
#9. but my idea of myself and my parents' idea of me no longer belong in the same place.
Margaret Atwood
#11. Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.
C. Otto Scharmer
#12. Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Rex Stout
#13. He burst out laughing. "You look like a warm shade of Frosty the Snowman! It's all over your cheeks and nose."
I snorted and rolled my eyes. "Oh yeah?" I swiped my finger along the inside of the icing bowl and tapped his nose. "Well you look like Rudolph.
Shaye Evans
#14. C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
Dennis Ritchie
