A distributed system is one in which I can’t get any work done because some machine I’ve never heard of has crashed.

It is time to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be logically respectable until philosophers solve the problem of induction.

深刻沉着、忠厚笃信，是第一等的禀赋；直率开朗、豪迈雄健，是第二等的禀赋；明智聪慧、能言善辩，是第三等的禀赋。

I think you should be able to do whatever you want as long as you're not hurting anybody.