“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“technical debt’ that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn’t pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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