IT Quotes I Like
-
I often want to have a place to store quotes. So, going to collect them here. I'll edit as I add them. I encourage others to respond and maintain their own, edited post with great IT quotes. Often these are my own quotes because I forget what I've said and hate when that happens - and I have a huge ego.
High Availability is not something that you buy, it is something that you do. - John Nicholson
From standardization comes simplicity. - Scott Alan Miller
Complexity is the enemy of reliability and security. - Scott Alan Miller
One of the most important aspects of any IT decision is managing and reducing risk. - Scott Alan Miller
Doable is always easier than impossible. - Scott Alan Miller
Being lucky is not the same as having made a good decision. - SAM
That's like shooting yourself in the face today to avoid maybe getting a headache next year. - SAM
That's like looking under the hood of your car to figure out why Jiffy Lube isn't open on Sundays. - SAM
Salesmen are not responsible for doing your due diligence for you. - SAM
Avoiding planned downtime is planning for unplanned downtime. - SAM
Strict organizational hierarchy is a socially acceptable way of stating "intentionally suppressing exposure". - SAM
Raises are given when the company is healthy, titles are given when things are going badly. - SAM
RAID 0 has redundancy, just redundancy of the risk rather than redundancy of the data. - SAM
To be IT we have to provide business solutions, not products. - SAM
Planning is only useful when it can be used for preparation. - SAM
When deploying software we should never be concerned with how long the vendor will continue to provide support, but rather by how soon we get to update.
There is no Uber, only other people's cars. - Chad Wilson
-
IT happens, so get on with IT
-
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid
-
"If I can get the packets to the cloud, I can make magic" - Scott Haskins, CTO of Pertino
-
"Don't let the magic smoke out, IT is what makes it all work" My electronics teacher.
-
@scottalanmiller said:
Often these are my own quotes because I have a huge ego
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do - Steve Jobs
-
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy., - Joseph Campbell
-
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
–Andrew Tanenbaum -
This was a quote from someone on SpiceWorks but I can't remember who posted it
-
This will always be one of my favorites (quoting @scottalanmiller
That's like shooting yourself in the face today to avoid maybe getting a headache next year.
-
That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!
-
@scottalanmiller said:
That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!
Maybe you should start a database of SAM analogies.
-
@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!
Maybe you should start a database of SAM analogies.
I need to do that too
At least I started recording the quotes.
-
It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller
-
@lance said:
It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller
Love it, any idea when or where I originally said it?
-
@scottalanmiller said:
@lance said:
It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller
Love it, any idea when or where I originally said it?
It's good stuff. Here is a link https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/122118-virtualization-can-i-host-a-64-bit-vm-on-a-32-bit-host?page=2
-
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape on the highway - unknown
-
@MattSpeller said:
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape on the highway - unknown
–Andrew Tanenbaum
See a few posts to the north.
-
@scottalanmiller good grief that's twice now that I've done that today. Thank you for the correction & attribution.
-
("It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature!"
