On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:22:57 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: > "The Internet is the only endeavour of man in which a single-character > typographical error in a file on a computer on the other side of the > planet *which you do not even know exists* can take your entire business > off line for the better part of a day." > > -- Someone, in the wake of the (I think) Turkish YouTube BGP hijacking; > damn if I remember who. I might be embellishing. :-)
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -- Leslie Lamport, 1987. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/distributed-system.txt
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