Default Quote by Larry Wall

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs

— Linus Torvalds

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

— Douglas Crockford

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

— John Carmack

A good resolve will make any port.

— Horace

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

— Havoc Pennington

Ephemeral should be the default.

— Evan Spiegel

When the preferable is not available make the available preferable.

— Anonymous

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

— Alan Perlis

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

— Jon Postel