Quote: Don’t Try to Remember it All

Don’t even try to remember it all. Remember that what you’ve seen is possible. Remember what is an integral foundation to what you’re doing. Remember what you work with every day. Then remember to build a good reference library … for the rest.

– Robert Vieira (Professional Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Programming, Page 20)

Quote: Simplicity in IT

The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren’t there.

– Gordon Bell Encore Computer Corporation

Course Evaluation

From my comments on a course I attended:

Despite appearance the food was actually edible, but I vividly recall the sight of rubberized macaroni cheese looking up at me from a cardboard box (pulls face + shudders).

Quote: Luck

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity

– Seneca

Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

Quote: Circumstances

Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself

–Epictetus

Quote: Build a Ship.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote: Victory

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

–Sun-tzu
Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

Quote: Application

Information without application leads to frustration.

–Larry Burkett (?)

Quote: So Much Stranger

When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. No, the truth is the world is so much stranger than that, so much darker, and so much madder. And so much better.

– Russel T Davies,Dr. Who Series 2 Story 179: ”Love and Monsters” (2006)

Quote: Desire is Destiny

You are what your deep, driving desire is.

As your desire is, so is your will.

As your will is, so is your deed.

As your deed is, so is your destiny.

–Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5