Thought for the Day:Grace Hopper on Cloud Computing (~30 Yrs Ago)

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn’t budge a log, they didn’t try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn’t be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

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  • http://twitter.com/martent1999 Marten Terpstra

    And perhaps the same applies to networking (bandwidth)…