Thomas A. Limoncelli > Quotes

“The small batches principle is part of the DevOps methodology. It comes from the Lean Manufacturing movement, which is often called just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. It”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“You’ll hear me say this again: save your brain for higher-level thinking. Use your organizer for storing information. Don’t trust your brain.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. —C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture How”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I remembered who was telling me this. — Emo Philips”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“A system administrator sometimes needs to be a business-process consultant, corporate visionary, janitor, software engineer, electrical engineer, economist, psychiatrist, mindreader, and, occasionally, bartender. As”
― Thomas A Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“Schedule Reading Time Never get caught up reading all those computer-industry magazines that come to your mailbox? Schedule a one-hour reading time each week. Find a place to hide, and read as much as you can. Throw out what you weren’t able to read, which keeps your reading material fresh.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“The vendor would also be unlikely to give permission to have the specifics documented in a book on system administration. Failures”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

“I’ve found Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Collins) and The Feeling Good Handbook (Plume) to be extremely helpful and highly regarded books in the area of managing stress in productive ways. Many”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“The strangest problems often turn out to be misconfigured DNS. DNS”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“Calling someone to reschedule wastes time and creates work for the other person. The time I’ve spent fixing double bookings in my life is time I’ll never get back.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“I have no way of knowing that it’s not just some kind of feel-good hoax set up to make customers think the vendor cares while they actually discard the submissions.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“SAs must find a balance between giving users full access and restricting them. This balance affects the rate at which the OS will decay. A wise person once said, “To err is human; to really screw up requires the root password.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“Most network providers do not sell latency, just bandwidth.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, The Practice of System and Network Administration

“When I hear someone touting the cloud as a magic-bullet for all computing problems, I silently replace “cloud” with “clown” and carry on with a zen-like smile.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

“(I should note that when Tom Reingold was at Bell Labs, he not only called and congratulated the submitter of every 1,000th request, he took them to lunch and used it as an opportunity to ask them how they would like to see service improved.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

“A person with a watch knows what time it is. A person with two watches is never sure.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“Most companies have a yearly rhythm. For example, retail often has a busy time around December. If you identify the rhythm, you can plan your projects around it. If you don’t, you will find yourself swimming upstream. If your company doesn’t have a defined rhythm, define one for yourself.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart