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The Only Thing That Is Fault Tolerant About The Internet Is That The Users Are Prepared To Tolerate Its Faults.
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The only thing that is fault tolerant about the Internet is
that the users are prepared to tolerate its faults.
-- Rob Pike
Related:
A fault tolerant system must report the faults even as it tolerates them.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad. -- Rob Pike
Intolerance is a state no tolerant man can tolerate. -- McGinley
The type syntax for C is essentially unparsable. -- Rob Pike
Most of your faults are not your fault.
Given its constituency, the only thing I expect to be "open" about [the Open Software Foundation] is its mouth.
-- John Gilmore...
locals, the pl.n. The users on one's local network (as opposed, say, to people one reaches via public Internet or UUCP connects).
The marked thing about this usage is how little it has to do with real-space distance....
locals, the: pl.n. The users on one's local network (as opposed, say, to people one reaches via public Internet or UUCP connects).
The marked thing about this usage is how little it has to do with real-space distance....