IT Quotes I Like
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Corey Quinn: The best architectures emphasize quick recovery. The worst architectures try to make failure impossible.
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I would say, that they make it APPEAR that failure is impossible
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Form over Function
It's such a great one, makes me laugh every time.
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May be already on here, and not IT-specific but:
- You can't fix stupid
- Common sense is the least common of all of the senses
-- also pretty much anything on despair.com
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@notverypunny said in IT Quotes I Like:
May be already on here, and not IT-specific but:
- You can't fix stupid
- Common sense is the least common of all of the senses
-- also pretty much anything on deapair.com
Link no worky.
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@DustinB3403 fixed the link... this is why I love tab completion on the cli
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"Nothing is more permanent than temporary"
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Your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency. Especially if I warned you repeatedly.
by the way ...I LOVE this one.
Salesmen are not responsible for doing your due diligence for you. - SAM -
@scottalanmiller
ever notice that in the cartoon world the bad guy would say alot "But that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!" when they start to lose.
especially Cobra Commander.Always confused me. how could you be SO arrogant to think that everything you do is foolproof?
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@ysapir said in IT Quotes I Like:
"But that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!" when they start to lose.
Inconceivable!
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@scottalanmiller This one applies to me on the receiving end sometimes. Trying to change that behavior
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"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors"
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"Suspicion breeds confidence" - IT security project I found and forgot its name
non IT:
"One of the codes I live by: my appearance should be in no way noteworthy, but then again not so unnoteworthy as to being itself noteworthy" - david Mitchell
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Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support.
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"It's not our job to train the stupid, just to try and make it stupid proof" - DustinB3403
@DustinB3403
Back in the early 90s when colored screens were a luxury and the main desktop OS was 3 characters, I wrote an ERP system for a manufacturing company in C. One of the secretaries there did her very best to make me a better programmer. It seemed to be her mission. -
@dafyre said in IT Quotes I Like:
We need to quit asking people "How stupid can you be?"... Some folks are taking that as a challenge.
-- Can't remember where I heard that from.
From ERCOT's leadership.
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@scottalanmiller said in IT Quotes I Like:
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@nadnerb said in Ransomware Isn't the Problem, IT Departments Are:
meatware being meatware
