"TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."

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Source : "The Robustness Principle". RFC 793, "Transmission Control Protocol", entire text of section 2.10, www.ietf.org. September 1981.

Jon Postel

#Principles Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to wrap theirselves up in mystery, perhaps only except for a hobby of jumbling up everything that is in order. And if the cat can, and usually so, make a great mystery of where it was when you were searching for it even if a moment ago it was sitting by your side, do not have any doubts: its ancestors had a great pleasure to surround its origin by mystery.”
“There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in English in the United States is anything but a humanist. So all poets, including myself, seem to be under that umbrella. We just don't have Rush Limbaugh poets, Ann Coulter poets.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”

Source : "Cloud Atlas". "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 528. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.
“I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.”
“My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.”
“I never hang my feet off the end of the bed -I'm afraid little gremlins will bite my toes! Really!”
“I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.”

Source : "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.
“Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.”

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