“System designers who do not allow users to type far ahead ought to be tarred and feathered, or worse yet, be forced to use their own system.”
“I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.”
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.”
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“Many security texts decompose the security of an information system in three components: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Together, they are often referred to as "CIA". [They] constitute ...”
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.”
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.”
Andrew S. Tanenbaum