I'm very competitive and ambitious, but I don't have a desire to be number one. I just want to do really interesting work and push myself.
A distributed system is one in which I can’t get any work done because some machine I’ve never heard of has crashed.
In this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.