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He handed the phone to Rosa with a quick warning, “You can zoom but don’t go scrolling unless you wanna see pics of my pork cork.” “Your what?” she asked innocently. “You know, my pants lance? My plaster blaster? My tonsil tickler? The ole
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“A lot of what drives me and others working in this space is the knowledge that, whatever your constraints, we can always do better, and the desire to help people on their journey.”
― The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
― The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“When everything is spiraling out of control, no one can dig in and hold steady. Not really. They lash out, desperate to grab onto anything. They lash out.”
― The Vanishing Season
― The Vanishing Season
“But that’s where the bad news comes in. Our global civilization came at a huge cost. We needed a whole bunch of energy to build it, and we got that energy by burning fossil fuels, which came from dead plants and animals buried deep in the ground. We used up most of this fuel before you got here, and now it’s pretty much all gone. This means that we no longer have enough energy to keep our civilization running like it was before. So we’ve had to cut back. Big-time. We call this the Global Energy Crisis, and it’s been going on for a while now.”
― Ready Player One
― Ready Player One
“I tried my best to fit in. Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me. But even the other outcasts wanted nothing to do with me. I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. Whenever I got near one of them, I invariably broke out in a cold sweat and lost the ability to speak in complete sentences.”
― Ready Player One
― Ready Player One
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