Distributed Systems Quotes

#1. In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

Guido Van Rossum

#2. Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

Jojo Moyes

#3. Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.

Vinton Cerf

#4. In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Salman Rushdie

#5. The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest.
If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown 'soulless' black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization

Viktor Vijay Kumar

#6. He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books with insistent covers.

Zadie Smith

#7. When I first saw you, I saw love
And the first time you touched me, I felt love
And after all this time,
You're still the one I love.

Shania Twain

#8. 170. When it is said to them: "Follow what Allaah has sent down." They say: "Nay! We shall follow what we found our fathers following." (Would they do that!) Even though their fathers did not understand anything nor were they guided?

Anonymous

#9. Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

T. S. Eliot

#10. One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

Ron Paul

#11. F we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

Robert Lowell

#12. Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.

Aldous Huxley

#13. A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Horace Mann

#14. No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

George MacDonald

#15. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

Carl Rogers

#16. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

David Attenborough

#17. The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

Leonardo Da Vinci