“ You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect. Scott Simpson
“ Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it. Jessica Livingston
“ A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable. Jessica Livingston
“ Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it. Jaron Lanier