"To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second."

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Source : "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

Fernando J. Corbato

#Running Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.”
“I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”

Source : Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1993). “The Brownings' correspondence: September 1849-January 1850 : letters 2813-2900”
“The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.”
“The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.”
“I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something.”
“But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.”
“The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you." And, I'm like, "Not really." When you're doing a science fiction movie, it's almost exactly the same.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”

Source : Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.190, City Lights Books

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