Even now, the photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans produce the oxygen in half the breaths you take, and they lock away an equal amount of carbon dioxide.
“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.”
― The End of Everything [Astrophysically Speaking]
― The End of Everything [Astrophysically Speaking]
“What one wins in a finite game is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them—unless, of course, I address myself as an other. The effectiveness of a title depends on its visibility, its noticeability to others.”
― Finite and Infinite Games
― Finite and Infinite Games
“Everyone in the organization should have access to as much data as legally possible.”
― Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
― Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
“Blaise Pascal, the famous French mathematician and physicist, wrote in Lettres Provinciales (translated), “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
― Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
― Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
“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”
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
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