Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.

Networks are like the human nervous system: complex and prone to failure.

MINIX was never meant to be a toy OS.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Open source is a development methodology, not a business model.

The art of programming is the art of managing complexity.

Viruses are a fact of life on the Internet.

I teach my students to think like engineers, not like hackers.

Security is a process, not a product.

Life is too short for proprietary software.

Every good programmer knows how to program in assembly language.

The web is a giant hairball of complexity.

Innovation comes from small teams, not large corporations.

Computers are useless; they can only give answers.

The kernel is the heart of the OS.

Teaching is the noblest profession.

Bugs are inevitable, but crashes are optional.

The joy of computing is in the creation.

Standards evolve through chaos.