If you can't detect failures, you are unable to recover from them. That's an obvious principle you need. - Joe Armstrong

Object oriented programming asked you to put things into categories, into classes. Concurrency oriented programming asks you to identify the concurrency and the problem. The concurrence in the problem is a property of the real world. If you are doing real world modeling you can see it, you can smell it, you can eat it

The terabyte boundary is going to cause movies to have the same status as films and digital books.

The API we use in programming languages are not adequate for describing the order in which we can perform the API calls. They are basically useless.