19 Quotes by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this.

I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He’s not angry with me either.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files.

A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.

However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.