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I haven't written a deterministic, non-threaded program since... 1983.
— Ken Birman,
explaining why it's important to handle non-determinism in debugging tools
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Suppose I inappropriately trusted you
— Ken Birman,
Asking a question during a systems lunch talk on bitcoin
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You can't be a vendor and say "my system has all these guarantees, but it's a little slow. And I've proved there's no point in trying to speed it up".
Your clients will say "And we can prove there's no way you're getting a check"
— Ken Birman,
[Discussing quorum replication in cs514]
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If you're trying to glue some junk together to build a glued-together junky thing, then Windows is the way to go.
— Ken Birman,
Comment made in a CS414 lecture
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I'm famous, you're not.
— Ken Birman,
To students at Brown Bag lunch on "How to give talks".
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I really hate blackboards; maybe I should go into industry.
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So the life of an octopus is very similar to the life of a philosopher.
— Ken Birman
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