"I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience."

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

"Many security texts decompose the security of an information system in three components: confidentiality, integrity, …"

"However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easie…"

"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."

""He" should be read as "he or she" throughout the book."

"UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device d…"

"System designers who do not allow users to type far ahead ought to be tarred and feathered, or worse yet, be forced t…"

""Linux is a leprosy; …" This statement is not grammatically, politically, or factually correct."

"Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small."