“I wanted to build fault tolerant systems and pretty soon I realized that you can’t make a fault tolerant system on a computer, because I think in the entire computer might crash, so I needed lots of independent computers.”
“"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.”
“I just want to model what’s going on in the real world”
“We need to build a world where there are parallel processes communicating through message passing and I thought they cannot have shared memory because if they have shared memory and the remote going to be the crash.”
“Why are people just moving the data and not the programs. We could move both of them to some intermediate point in the middle to perform the computation there.”
“This is a thing that really scares me, are people developing large applications that they don’t understand.”