Javier
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Putin laid down only two rules for Russia’s hackers. First, no hacking inside the motherland. And second, when the Kremlin calls in a favor, you do whatever it asks. Otherwise, hackers had full autonomy. And oh, how Putin loved them.
“Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy.”
― The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
― The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
“Situations like this only reinforce my deep suspicion of developers: They’re often carelessly breaking things and then disappearing, leaving Operations to clean up the mess.”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“But we are not one star. We are millions. Not one background, but millions.
To the untrained eye, the night sky is a scattering of stars, a chaos of light and dark across the universe.
And yet, the stars are not lost.
They form patterns. Constellations. If you know how to look, there are stories woven into the very essense of stars.
Be like a star. Shine your light. Shine your story. For stories will lead us home.
-Maryam”
― When Stars Are Scattered
To the untrained eye, the night sky is a scattering of stars, a chaos of light and dark across the universe.
And yet, the stars are not lost.
They form patterns. Constellations. If you know how to look, there are stories woven into the very essense of stars.
Be like a star. Shine your light. Shine your story. For stories will lead us home.
-Maryam”
― When Stars Are Scattered
“We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs a god, and so they invent one. The second erects temples to that god and tries to imitate him. And the third uses the marble from those temples to build brothels in which to worship their own greed, lust, and dishonesty. And that is why gods and heroes are always, inevitably, succeeded by mediocrities, cowards, and imbeciles.”
― The Fencing Master
― The Fencing Master
“Our auditors, who I’ve long believed are a force for justice and objectivity, are crapping on me, too?”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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