Microkernels Quotes & Sayings

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ... — Susan Sontag

Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods. — Salman Rushdie

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. — John E. Walker

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. — G.K. Chesterton

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "the American dream."
The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged that the United States didn't fully live up to that ideal, but he argued that America came closer than anywhere else. — Nicholas D. Kristof

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. — Bruce Jackson

Planning on staying?"
"Just till you wise up."
"I'm flattered you think that's a possibility."
"Yeah, well it's lucky I've rolled a lot of vacation. — Josh Lanyon

When crossed with Yorkshire, Hampshire, or Chester White females, the Duroc breed can create some top-rung F1 females for producing butcher stock and show pigs. — Kelly Klober

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. — Henri Rousseau

My dogs love me. Of course, by love I mean poop and by me I mean everywhere. — Dana Gould

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid. — Linus Torvalds

Dear Diary,
Today I met a boy
He stole my heart...
And won't give it back — Lyric

I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do. — Paul Auster