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“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Musashi Miyamoto, Book of Five Rings

“The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“You can only fight the way you practice”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Show me a developer who isn’t crashing production systems, and I’ll show you one who can’t fog a mirror.”
― Gene Kim bestselling author of The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project and Wiring, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“Information Security is always flashing their badges at people and

making urgent demands, regardless of the consequences to the rest of the organization, which is why we don’t invite them to many meetings. e best way to make sure something doesn’t get done is to have them in the room. ey’re always coming up with a million reasons why anything we

do will create a security hole that alien space-hackers will exploit to pil-lage our entire organization and steal all our code, intellectual property, credit card numbers, and pictures of our loved ones. ese are poten-tially valid risks, but I oen can’t connect the dots between their shrill, hysterical, and self-righteous demands and actually improving the de-

fensibility of our environment.”
― Gene Kim bestselling author of The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project and Wiring, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win