Adrian Bordinc

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. Leslie Lamport”
― Alex Petrov, Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

“while people might care which company they join, they don’t care which company they work for. The truth is that, once there, people care which team they’re on.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World

“Everything you see is in the past, as far as you’re concerned. If you look up at the Moon, you’re seeing a little over a second ago. The Sun is more than eight minutes in the past. And the stars you see in the night sky are deep in the past, from just a few years to millennia.”
― Katie Mack, The End of Everything [Astrophysically Speaking]

“Fifty years ago, I published a study2 devoted to a specific type of depression I had diagnosed in cases of young patients suffering from what I called “unemployment neurosis.” And I could show that this neurosis really originated in a twofold erroneous identification: being jobless was equated with being useless, and being useless was equated with having a meaningless life. Consequently, whenever I succeeded in persuading the patients to volunteer in youth organizations, adult education, public libraries and the like—in other words, as soon as they could fill their abundant free time with some sort of unpaid but meaningful activity—their depression disappeared although their economic situation had not changed and their hunger was the same. The truth is that man does not live by welfare alone.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning