Juan Ignacio Gelos > Juan Ignacio's Quotes

“Leaving aside the metaphysics, mythology, and sectarian dogma, what contemplatives throughout history have discovered is that there is an alternative to being continuously spellbound by the conversation we are having with ourselves; there is an alternative to simply identifying with the next thought that pops into consciousness. And glimpsing this alternative dispels the conventional illusion of the self.”
― Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“About the same number of people die each year from medical errors as from automobile accidents. Heart disease and cancer kill the most people in the United States, more than 500,000 each year. But stroke and lung diseases are each responsible for about 100,000 deaths each year — and scandalously, so are medical errors. Medical errors are notoriously difficult to track, given our litigious society, so we really do not know how many deaths that statisticians attribute to cancer or heart disease were also related to medical errors. But given the high likelihood that errors are implicated in some of these deaths, it is possible that medical errors could be the third leading cause of death in the United States.”
― Fred Trotter, Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

“I barely slept last night. I couldn’t get the picture Mike took out of my mind: an octagonal structure, all glass and shining metal, glistening in the middle of a field. There’s no road or path leading to it, no vehicles, no indication of what could be inside. It’s a mystery, a mirage rising out of an expanse of tall green grass.”
― A.G. Riddle, Departure

“There is now little question that how one uses one’s attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds—and lives—are largely shaped by how we use them.”
― Sam Harris, Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Goddamn fatherfucking asshole politician moral paraplegic dipshit drag-queen bitch!”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Doomed with enfeebled carcass to outstretch His loathed existence through ten centuries,”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

“TRANSFORM LOCAL DISCOVERIES INTO GLOBAL IMPROVEMENTS When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge. In other words, when teams or individuals have experiences that create expertise, our goal is to convert that tacit knowledge (i.e., knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing) into explicit, codified knowledge, which becomes someone else’s expertise through practice. This ensures that when anyone else does similar work, they do so with the cumulative and collective experience of everyone in the organization who has ever done the same work. A remarkable example of turning local knowledge into global knowledge is the US Navy’s Nuclear Power Propulsion Program (also known as “NR” for “Naval Reactors”), which has over 5,700 reactor-years of operation without a single reactor-related casualty or escape of radiation. The NR is known for their intense commitment to scripted procedures and standardized work and the need for incident reports for any departure from procedure or normal operations to accumulate learnings, no matter how minor the failure signal—they constantly update procedures and system designs based on these learnings. The result is that when a new crew sets out to sea on their first deployment, they and their officers benefit from the collective knowledge of 5,700 accident-free reactor-years. Equally impressive is that their own experiences at sea will be added to this collective knowledge, helping future crews safely achieve their own missions.”
― Gene Kim, The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

“The QMO, worked closely with the PMO throughout the Kanban transformation, but we never tried to change them. Our stance was to help them understand what was different about how projects were governed with the new Agile practices so they could decide what to change.”
― Jason Little, Lean Change Management: Innovative practices for managing organizational change

“In order for a field or discipline to progress and mature, it needs to reach a point where it can thoughtfully reflect on its origins, seek out a diverse set of perspectives on those reflections, and place that synthesis into a context that is useful for how the community pictures the future.”
― Gene Kim, The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

“Chip frowned and looked at Lilac. She was packing books into the carton, not looking at him. He looked back at King and sought words. ‘It would still be worth knowing,’ he said. ‘Being happy or unhappy – is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness – a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”
― Ira Levin, This Perfect Day

“Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”
― Ira Levin, This Perfect Day

“I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of stars. If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man’s blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant tremor, or part of a universal movement!”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

“Control is not the source of trust, Madam President.” Sister Stephens settled back, servos and gears whining slightly. “Control is the opposite of trust.”
― William Hertling, A.I. Apocalypse

“Mike had explained that agile software development, intentional community, and group dynamics had emerged from a single pool of primordial psychological research and indigenous traditions.”
― William Hertling, The Turing Exception

“Did you know what Thomas Edison used to say when he kept trying to make light bulbs and nothing worked?” “ ‘I have not failed. I’ve found ten thousand ways that don’t work.”
― William Hertling, The Turing Exception

“In a moment there often dwells the sense of eternity; for when profoundly happy, we know that it is impossible to die. Whenever the soul feels itself, it feels everlasting life.”
― Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni & Rizzi

“en cuanto el sujeto conoce un objeto, por muy parcial y superficial que sea este conocimiento, algo del objeto está en el sujeto y ha pasado a formar parte de su ser; sea cual sea el aspecto bajo el que consideremos las cosas, siempre son las mismas las que alcanzamos, al menos en un cierto aspecto, que en todo caso forma uno de sus atributos, es decir, uno de los elementos constitutivos de su esencia, Admitamos, si queremos, que esto es “realismo”; la verdad es que las cosas son así, y las palabras no ayudan; pero, con todo rigor, los puntos de vista especiales del “realismo” y del “idealismo”, con la oposición sistemática que denota su correlación, no se aplican aquí, donde estamos mucho más allá del dominio limitado del pensamiento filosófico. Además, no hay que perder de vista que el acto del conocimiento tiene dos caras inseparables; si es identificación del sujeto con el objeto, es también, y por la misma razón, asimilación del objeto por el sujeto; al alcanzar las cosas en su esencia, las “realizamos”, en toda la fuerza de esta palabra, como estados o modalidades de nuestro propio ser; y, si la idea, en cuanto verdadera y adecuada, participa de la naturaleza de la cosa, es porque, a la inversa, la cosa misma participa también de la naturaleza de la idea.”
― René Guénon, Introducción general al estudio de las doctrinas hindúes

“—Los amigos que perdemos no reposan en la tierra, Maximiliano — dijo el conde—, están sepultados en nuestro corazón, y es Dios quien lo ha querido así para que siempre nos acompañen. Yo tengo dos amigos que me acompañan siempre también. El uno es el que me ha dado la vida, el otro es el que me ha dado la inteligencia. El espíritu de los dos vive en mí. Les consulto en mis dudas, y si hago algún bien, a sus consejos lo debo. Consultad la voz de vuestro corazón, Morrel,”
― Alexandre Dumas, El conde de Montecristo