Kate

“Hobbies are a way of staying present so humans do not have to think about death. Yet the inevitable looms and grows.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

“Most testers I’ve known are perverse enough that if you tell them the “happy path” through the application, that’s the last thing they’ll do. It should be the same with load testing.”
― Michael T. Nygard, Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

“I got as far as Berlin. I put my signature on the Reichstag: “I, Sofya Kuntsevich, came here to kill war.” When I see a common grave, I kneel before it. Before every common grave…always on my knees…”
― Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

“The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”
― Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois