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“That which hurts, also instructs.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
― Seneca

“Any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“Greenspun’s 10th rule states, “Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” This has morphed into the newer joke: “Every microservice architecture contains a half-broken reimplementation of Erlang.” I think there is a lot of truth to this.”
― Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

“The code that changes together, stays together.”
― Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith