Tim Siwula

“A database is just a tool: how you use it is up to you.”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, maneuvering units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship.”
― Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

“We are really stuck with ourselves, and our attempts to reject or to accept are equally fruitless, for they fail to reach that inaccessible center of our selfhood which is trying to do the accepting or the rejecting.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“Selling covered calls is similar to buying a house and renting it to someone else. But instead of renting your house, you are renting your stocks.”
― Michael Sincere, Understanding Options