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Thurgood Marshall: America can do better
“We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young…
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Michael Joseph: Authors are easy to get on with
“Authors are easy to get on with — if you’re fond of children.” —Michael Joseph.
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Karl Popper: Rational attitude
“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.” —Karl Popper.
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Milton Berle: Committee
“A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.” —Milton Berle.
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Fred Reuss: Great song
“I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played for SEVEN hours. Great song.” —Fred Reuss.
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Orson Welles: Three other people
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. “ — Orson Welles.
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Benjamin Spock: Religion
“Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn’t seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts — there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On…
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G Gordon Liddy: Easter Bunny
“There’s something different about us —different from people of Europe, Africa, Asia … a deep and abiding belief in the Easter Bunny.” —G. Gordon Liddy.
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Kerri Miller: Understanding changes
“If you’re actually doing TDD, you’re throwing away tests all the time, as your understanding of what the code is changes.” —Kerri Miller.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Endless immensity of the sea
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Pearl Zhu: Progress
“Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.” —Pearl Zhu.
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Martyn A Ould: Things will fall apart
“…it is dangerous to think of roles nested in some sort of hierarchy: hierarchies smack strongly of decomposition and if we try to decompose responsibility by cutting it up into lumps we shall lose the notion of cooperation and collaboration, which is what makes so much happen in organizations. Things will fall apart.” —Martyn A…
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Martyn A Ould: Not because they are themselves
“…in an organization, people do things not because they are themselves but because they have a responsibility in the organization; they are perhaps paid to carry out that responsibility: they have a role in the organization.” —-Martyn A Ould, Business Process Management: A Rigorous Approach.
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Henry Ford: Keep your mind young
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” —Henry Ford.
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Anne Frank: Giving
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” —Anne Frank.
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Susan Bridges: Essence of life
“The essence of life takes place in the neutral zone phase of transition. It is in that interim spaciousness that all possibilities, creativity and innovative ideas can come to life and flourish.”—Susan Bridges.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Wisdom
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” —Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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Vladimir Lenin: Goal of socialism
“The goal of socialism is communism.” ––Vladimir Lenin.
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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…
