“In distributed systems, suspicion, pessimism, and paranoia pay off.”
― Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
― Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
―
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
―
“They prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity as well.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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