Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability. Simplicity does not preclude complexity — instead it guards against unnecessary complexity that breeds error.
The reason of everything is nothing itself.
Can a coordinated attack by a million Internet-connected smart toasters take down Google?
At one time, 80% of AT&T’s capital value was the copper in the local loops. AT&T was then, in effect, the world’s largest copper mine. Fortunately, this fact was not well known in the investment community.
you live 100 meters too far from the nearest end office to get this service. Could you please move?’’
Imagine that you have trained your St. Bernard, Bernie, to carry a box of three 8-mm tapes instead of a flask of brandy.
Early spam filtering software relied largely on the contents of email messages to differentiate unwanted spam from legitimate emails, but spammers quickly found their way around those filters, since it is relatively easy to generate 100 ways of spelling Viagra.
The laser's strength, a very narrow beam, is also its weakness here. Aiming a laser beam 1 mm wide at a target the size of a pin head 500 meters away requires the marksmanship of a latter-day Annie Oakley.