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“When I was writing, I forgot to be sad. I forgot to worry about the future. I forgot where I was. I didn’t know that could happen…Did you know that you could sit in front of a screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn’t last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it’s awesome. It’s everything.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Effective operations approaches are all alike, whereas broken approaches are all broken in their own way. Incentives can in part explain why that is.”
― Niall Richard Murphy, The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE

“A good culture can work around broken tooling, but the opposite rarely holds true. As the saying goes, culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
― Niall Richard Murphy

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“if a machine can perform a desired operation, then a machine often should”
― Niall Richard Murphy, The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE

“Any View Of Things That Is Not Strange Is False”
― Neil Gaiman, Sandman Box Set

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book Three

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“It(Amazon) is a company of control freaks run by control freaks and lorded over by the king of control freaks”
― John Rossman, The Amazon Way: Amazon's Leadership Principles