“DevOps isn’t about automation, just as astronomy isn’t about telescopes.”
“Write tests until fear is transformed into boredom”
― Test-Driven Development: By Example
― Test-Driven Development: By Example
“a social epidemic, Mavens are data banks. They provide the message. Connectors are social glue: they spread it. But there is also a select group of people—Salesmen—with the skills to persuade us when we are unconvinced of what we are hearing, and they are as critical to the tipping of word-of-mouth epidemics as the other two groups. Who”
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
“A police officer pulls over Werner Heisenberg for speeding. “Do you know how fast you were going?” asks the cop. “No,” Heisenberg replies, “but I know exactly where I am!” I think we can all agree that physics jokes are the funniest jokes there are. They are less good at accurately conveying physics. This particular chestnut rests on familiarity with the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle, often explained as saying that we cannot simultaneously know both the position and the velocity of any object. But the reality is deeper than that.”
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
“The three rules of the Tipping Point—the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context—offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point.”
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
“Quantum reality is a wave function; classical positions and velocities are merely what we are able to observe when we probe that wave function.”
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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