Quotes

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

- Patton

William

If you make yourself easy to replace you also make yourself easy to promote. - William

Sensitivity training has done you lads a world of good. - William

Sitting under a pear tree waiting for an apple to drop - William

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it. - William

t*ts are like trains sets; You get them for the kids but father always wants to plays with them - William

Some of the Regulars are Originals - William, In reference to some of the Old pubs in England

Most sysadmin gigs consist of mopping up after the bleeding edge whilst upgrading the trailing edge... - William

Problems with Windows? Reboot. Problems with Unix? Be root. - William

It's a pity stupidity isn't painful. - William

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. - William

Other

On working smarter: It's not just about technology -dfrancis wrt not letting client's set up their own "starting config" and instead setting up client the way we want them to be setup, based on our "best practices".

Unix

# Kill the environment for security! (Don't tell greenpeace)
%ENV=(); - Dward? from /home/sshjobs/bin/perldig.pl

Team Bacon

Using my nipples! It’s Moroccan magic. - Adil

constant quick fixes, they don't make no sense. - Billy Talent , Living in the Shadows

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Adapted from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/quotes

Dr. Management: All right guard, begin the unnecessarily slow-moving change control.
[guard starts change control]
Dr. Management: Close the ticket!
DaThornton: Wait, aren't you even going to wait for the upgrade to work? It could go horribly wrong and take forever!
Dr. Management: No no no, I'm going to leave them alone and not actually do any upgrades, I'm just gonna assume it all went to plan. What?
DaThornton: I have a RHEL 4 DVDs, in my room, you give me five seconds, I'll get it, I'll come back down here, BOOM, I'll upgrade all these servers!
Dr. Management: DaThornton, you just don't get it, do ya? You don't.

Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice'
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice - Ben Folds - Songs of long

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hm, you forgot the important section "The monitoring system monitors systems that are implemented and managed by a dizzyingly discordant amalgamation of incomplete, non-standard methodologies, labaranthyne, absurdly-redundant system integrations, propped up by a rag-tag team of surreally-demented process-chasing reboot-mad monkies". Best summed up as "Gonzo Infrastructure" or "Fear and Loathing in GSS". Sean Kipling commenting on "top X signs that you are working with amateurs"

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ITS NOT ROCKET SURGERY - Sebudai

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Dune

Chapter house

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to
laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned
behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned,
gathering destructive momentum.
-Darwi Odrade
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert

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Other

The most telling criticism of an overgrown institution is a smaller one that works better -- Paul Goodman

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Also, technology is grounded in the human principle that you
must give a workman the best tool, otherwise he is degraded.
Despite the disruption sometimes involved, for instance in
automation, most people are not Luddite and do not oppose
technological advance.

Paul Goodman
The Moral Ambiguity of America
1966

He not nuts, he's crazy! - Short Round - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Happiness: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence

- JFK

Thornton's Uncertainty principle: You can't know how many bugs you have until you look.

I think there a light at the end of the tunnel, let's hope it's not some f*cker with a torch and more work for us.

- MC

seen on #engineers

16:07 <@pwt> it's a fish
16:21 <@ac> is it not a squirrel?

On troubleshooting

step 1 fix, step 2 it, step 3 Fix it!

-Steve Griffin

Too many monkeys on the branch

- the bulgarian

silly webpages mastersigs is for postini
- Brad (09/12/2008 2:19:26 PM)

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Best Practices isn't only about coding in a way that doen't introduce errors. Sometimes it's also about coding in a way that doesn't conceal errors. [His Emphasis]
- Damian Conaway Perl Best Practices

c gives you enough rope to hang yourself with,

and c++ give you the tree object to tie the rope around.

-- who?? colin.

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In God We Trust; All Others, Bring Data - anonymous

17:06 <@dathornton> urban rocket fuel
17:06 <+holly> 2 1/2 oz. Bacardi 151 rum
17:06 <+holly> ..1 oz. Tanquerey Gin
17:06 <+holly> ..1 oz. Smirnoff Vodka
17:06 <+holly> ..Add ice to a pint glass, add liquor, top off with 7-UP, kiss your ass goodbye
17:06 <@dathornton> bing
17:06 <+holly> bong
17:06  * iblair may try one of those tonight
17:07 <@dathornton> I can't kiss my own ass.
17:07 <@dathornton> so none for me

On non-disclosure
Better to sign an unreasonable contract than a resonable one because the reasonable one will be enforced.
- Source undisclosed

doing it the first time is science

doing it the second time is engineering

doing it the third time is being a technician

- some guy on TED

15:36 <@dathornton> hm.. I have my captain pedantic tights on and my captain typo cape on.
15:36 <@dathornton> dressing in the dark again.

doing it right takes time. doing it wrong takes longer. - dathornton

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[user@system tmp]$

Broadcast message from sford (pts/1) (Mon Apr 6 14:55:12 2009):

dave smells

[user@system tmp]$

lk (7/10/09 3:19:24 PM): I want to take a nap
jm (7/10/09 3:19:39 PM): I want to take a sleep;)
jm (7/10/09 3:19:55 PM): naps are far too short for how drowsy I am right now;)
lk (7/10/09 3:20:17 PM): I think they put something in the air here
jm (7/10/09 3:20:43 PM): Yeah...that's Dave. 
jm (7/10/09 3:20:59 PM): We've asked him to stop, but he claims it's a bodyly function and that he's not responcible. 
lk (7/10/09 3:22:06 PM): yeah, I suppose there's not much point in negotiating with terrorists

Because we use retarded SSH, that's why."

-- Mario

I am not conceited; because conceit is a flaw, and I have none!

-- Martin

Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"

Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"

FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"

no excuses for medicity

- Barrack Obama ( Speech At 'Congressional Black Caucus' Dinner 2009 )

On the pain involved in most change: There is no fruit that is not bitter before it is ripe.

~Publilius Syrus (85-43 BC)

“People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not”

Neil Postman

For a short-term fix, fear based leadership wins out every time.

-anon

On the battle of gettysburg

Lee decide to abandon the original plan

He gives up what we call strategic aim.

He makes the mistake of letting operational development drive strategy.

--Rishard A. Gabriel, PHD Department of war studies, Royal Military College Canada.

fast is slow. slow is quick. quick is smooth.

unknown, military

Excuses are like assholes. Everybody has one, and they all stink.

unknown, military

Train like you are completing, Compete like you are training.

unknown

Don't let any get between you and the poeple using your design.

Matt Corddry

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A bucket full of water does not splash about,
             only a bucket half-full splashes.
                                           -- Malayan Proverb.

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