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Quotes About Threading

The Difference Between DispatcherTimer and ThreadPoolTimer
~ Adam Nathan
Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can go through them.
~ Kip Thorne
The morning had started. Someone else was out there, threading the day into cloth.
~ Sarah Blake
The java.util.concurrent.atomic package contains atomic variable classes for effecting atomic state transitions on numbers and object references. By replacing the long counter with an AtomicLong, we ensure that all actions that access the counter state are atomic.
~ Brian Goetz
With the exception of immutable objects, it is not safe to use an object that has been initialized by another thread unless the publication happens-before the consuming thread uses it.
~ Brian Goetz
Every shared, mutable variable should be guarded by exactly one lock. Make it clear to maintainers which lock that is.
~ Brian Goetz
If multiple threads access the same mutable state variable without appropriate synchronization, your program is broken. There are three ways to fix it: Don't share the state variable across threads; Make the state variable immutable; or Use synchronization whenever accessing the state variable.
~ Brian Goetz
A class is thread-safe if it behaves correctly when accessed from multiple threads, regardless of the scheduling or interleaving of the execution of those threads by the runtime environment, and with no additional synchronization or other coordination on the part of the calling code.
~ Brian Goetz
Static synchronized methods use the Class object for the lock.)
~ Brian Goetz
Because it lacks message threading , in which messages take the form of a set of ordered, often nested replies to an initial post, it's not easy to track specific discussions.
~ Glenn Fleishman
And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own.
~ John Hay