Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.
For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.
Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.
Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots.
If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to be this, or that,' I'm proud to say I don't pay attention.
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that's how humans reproduced. And I thought, 'How could I really understand that?'
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.
The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.
There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
