Concurrency Quote by Brian Goetz

“Compound actions on shared state, such as incrementing a hit counter (read-modify-write) or lazy initialization (check-then-act), must be made atomic to avoid race conditions.…

— Brian Goetz

“Some secrets are safer behind lock and key”

— Renee Ahdieh

“When a field is declared volatile, the compiler and runtime are put on notice that this variable is shared and that operations on it…

— Brian Goetz

“Accessing shared, mutable data requires using synchronization; one way to avoid this requirement is to not share. If data is only accessed from a…

— Brian Goetz

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Definition merely adds the locks to a world that is assumed to be closed.”

— John Holloway

“Safety is a system property, not a component property, and must be controlled at the system level, not the component level.”

— Nancy G. Leveson

“The properties of an object are automatically exposed, whereas the variables in a closure are automatically hidden.”

— David Herman

“Once you've hidden something, you have to keep it hidden.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Of what is concealed can also be revealed.”

— Pushpa Rana

“There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never…

— Deepak Chopra

“Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.”

— E.M. Forster