Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Grant Wood: While I was milking a cow
“All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.” —Grant Wood.
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G K Chesterton: Tradition and the Church
“The Church has defended tradition in a time which stupidly denied and despised tradition. But that is simply because the Church is always the only thing defending whatever is at the moment stupidly despised. It is already beginning to appear as the only champion of reason in the twentieth century, as it was the only…
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Emma Goldman: No greater fallacy
“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another.” —Emma Goldman.
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Sun Tzu: Blend and harmonize
“Having collected an army and concentrated his forces, he must blend and harmonize the different elements thereof before pitching his camp.”—Sun Tzu.
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Kehlog Albran: Best of friends
“Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral.” —Kehlog Albran, The Profit.
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William Styron: Several lives
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” —William Styron.
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Matthew Danish: Unix
“This is Unix we’re talking about, remember. It’s not supposed to be nice for the applications programmer.” —Matthew Danish on debian-devel.
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Monitor levels
‘“Is there a problem?” monitors are best answered by aligning the monitors to the measurements of shareholder and stakeholder value creation. Real-time business metrics and customer experience metrics should be employed. • “Where is the problem?” monitors may very well be out-of-the-box third-party or open source solutions that are relatively simple to deploy. Be careful…
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Linus Torvalds: Cool name
‘Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I should use Linux over BSD? No. That’s it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just…
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Handful of monitors
“Technologists have long measured availability as a product of the availability of all the devices within their care. That absolutely has a place and is important to such concerns as cost, mean time between failures, headcount needs, redundancy needs, mean time to restore, and so on. But it doesn’t really relate to what the shareholders…
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Monitoring issues
‘Monitoring Issues and a General Framework Most monitoring platforms suffer from two primary problems: • The systems being monitored were not designed to be monitored. • The approach to monitoring is bottom up rather than top down and misses the critical question “Is there a problem affecting customers right now?” Solving these problems is relatively…
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Wilson Follett: Planned inadvertency
“The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.” —Wilson Follett.
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Solomon Short: Nature abhors a hero
“Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?” —Solomon Short.
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Designing to be monitored
‘Designing to be monitored is an approach wherein one builds monitoring into the application or system rather than around it. It goes beyond logging that failures have occurred and toward identifying themes of failure and potentially even performing automated escalation of issues or concerns from an application perspective. A system that is designed to be…
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Somewhat different world
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Annie Dillard: No shortage of good days
“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample…
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Sun Tzu: Ears and eyes
“Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.”—Sun Tzu.
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George Burns: Older than most western countries
“I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I’m older than most western countries.” —George Burns.
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Phyllis Diller: Cleaning
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” —Phyllis Diller.
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Fyodor Dostoevski: Understand him
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” —Fyodor Dostoevski.
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Linus Torvalds: Kernel Hacker – The Next Generation
‘AP/STT. Helsinki, Dec 5th, 6:22 AM. For immediate release. In order to allay fears about the continuity of the Linux project, Linus Torvalds together with his manager Tove Monni have released Linus v2.0, affectionately known as Kernel Hacker – The Next Generation. Linux stock prices on Wall Street rose sharply after the announcement; as one…
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Fran Lebowitz: Educational television
“Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.” —Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies.
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Joni Mitchell: Less than fascination
“You go down to the pickup station, craving warmth and beauty; You settle for less than fascination — a few drinks later you’re not so choosy. And the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you’ve found —Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf you hurry to the blackness…
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Cons of Grid Computing
“Cons of Grid Computing We have identified three major drawbacks of grid computing. These are listed in no particular order and are not all inclusive. There are many more cons, but these are representative of what you should expect if you include grid computing in your infrastructure. • Not shared simultaneously. The grid computing infrastructure…
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Pat Robertson: The sky is blue
“I think the sky is blue because it’s a shift from black through purple to blue, and it has to do with where the light is. You know, the farther we get into darkness, and there’s a shifting of color of light into the blueness, and I think as you go farther and farther away…
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Pros of Grid Computing
“Pros of Grid Computing We have identified four major benefits of grid computing. These are listed in no particular order and are not all inclusive. There are many more benefits, but these are representative of the types of benefits you could expect from including grid computing in your infrastructure. • High computation rates. With the…
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Richard Bach: Butterfly
“What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.” —Richard Bach.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Little prigs and three-quarter madmen
“Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for the sakes.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Thomas Jefferson: Advertisements
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. “ —Thomas Jefferson.
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Sun Tzu: Dire straits
“And if we are able thus to attack an inferior force with a superior one, our opponents will be in dire straits.”—Sun Tzu.
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Drawbacks of Cloud Computing
“Drawbacks of Cloud Computing There are five major categories of cons or drawbacks that we see with cloud computing. These are in no particular order: • Security. Unlike SaaS companies who know exactly what sensitive or personally identifiable information is being entered into their system, cloud providers don’t know and try not to care; but…
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Benefits of Cloud Computing
“Benefits of Cloud Computing There are three major categories of pros or benefits that we see with cloud computing. These are in no particular order: • Cost. The pay as you use model allows the amount that you spend to stay closer to the actual usage and is particularly helpful for cash strapped companies. •…
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Sun Tzu: Conquered foe
“This is called, using the conquered foe to augment one’s own strength.”—Sun Tzu.
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Sun Tzu: Skillful soldier
“The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, nor are his supply wagons loaded more than once.”—Sun Tzu.
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Andrew Clark: You’re overcomplicating it
‘In programming, if someone tells you “you’re overcomplicating it,” they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you.’ ––Andrew Clark.
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Thomas Pynchon: Inamorati Anonymous
‘”I’ll tell you what I know, then,” he decided. “The pin I’m wearing means I’m a member of the IA. That’s Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is somebody in love. That’s the worst addiction of all.” “Somebody is about to fall in love,” Oedipa said, “you go sit with them, or something?” “Right. The whole idea…
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William Safire: Rules for writing
“Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of…
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Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
“This book (All Quiet on the Western Front) is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have…
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Cal Keegan: Spare time
“Life begins when you can spend your spare time programming instead of watching television.” —Cal Keegan.
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Isaac Asimov: False image
Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.” “There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. How would Seldon have worked out his Plan — and I don’t care how subtle his mathematics was — if he didn’t understand people; and how…
