Andrew S. Tanenbaum

"I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience."

"Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small."

"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 the core security properties that we must protect against attackers and eavesdroppers—such as the (other) CIA."

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

"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."

"Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days."