Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, …

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking fi…

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast …

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum