IT Quotes I Like
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I often want to have a place to store quotes. So, going to collect them here. I'll edit as I add them. I encourage others to respond and maintain their own, edited post with great IT quotes. Often these are my own quotes because I forget what I've said and hate when that happens - and I have a huge ego.
High Availability is not something that you buy, it is something that you do. - John Nicholson
From standardization comes simplicity. - Scott Alan Miller
Complexity is the enemy of reliability and security. - Scott Alan Miller
One of the most important aspects of any IT decision is managing and reducing risk. - Scott Alan Miller
Doable is always easier than impossible. - Scott Alan Miller
Being lucky is not the same as having made a good decision. - SAM
That's like shooting yourself in the face today to avoid maybe getting a headache next year. - SAM
That's like looking under the hood of your car to figure out why Jiffy Lube isn't open on Sundays. - SAM
Salesmen are not responsible for doing your due diligence for you. - SAM
Avoiding planned downtime is planning for unplanned downtime. - SAM
Strict organizational hierarchy is a socially acceptable way of stating "intentionally suppressing exposure". - SAM
Raises are given when the company is healthy, titles are given when things are going badly. - SAM
RAID 0 has redundancy, just redundancy of the risk rather than redundancy of the data. - SAM
There is no Uber, only other people's cars. - Chad Wilson
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IT happens, so get on with IT
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KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid
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"If I can get the packets to the cloud, I can make magic" - Scott Haskins, CTO of Pertino
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"Don't let the magic smoke out, IT is what makes it all work" My electronics teacher.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Often these are my own quotes because I have a huge ego
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do - Steve Jobs
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy., - Joseph Campbell
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
–Andrew Tanenbaum
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This was a quote from someone on SpiceWorks but I can't remember who posted it
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This will always be one of my favorites (quoting @scottalanmiller
That's like shooting yourself in the face today to avoid maybe getting a headache next year.
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That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!
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@scottalanmiller said:
That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!
Maybe you should start a database of SAM analogies.
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@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!
Maybe you should start a database of SAM analogies.
I need to do that too
At least I started recording the quotes.
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It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller
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@lance said:
It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller
Love it, any idea when or where I originally said it?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@lance said:
It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller
Love it, any idea when or where I originally said it?
It's good stuff. Here is a link https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/122118-virtualization-can-i-host-a-64-bit-vm-on-a-32-bit-host?page=2
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Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape on the highway - unknown
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@MattSpeller said:
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape on the highway - unknown
–Andrew Tanenbaum
See a few posts to the north.
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@scottalanmiller good grief that's twice now that I've done that today. Thank you for the correction & attribution.
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("It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature!"
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Just added this one...
That's like looking under the hood of your car to figure out why Jiffy Lube isn't open on Sundays.
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I don't have to believe in it for you to be lucky
Regarding said being very lucky that Cryptolocker didn't spread.
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"In a race between a rock and a pig, don't varnish your clams" ~ Dilbert (Elbonian saying)
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There's always time to do it right the second time - Unknown, heard on youtube channel AvE
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It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
–John Brunner
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
–Aldous Huxley
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@gjacobse said:
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
–Aldous Huxley
Scientific progress goes boink - Calvin and Hobbes
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@MattSpeller said:
@gjacobse said:
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
–Aldous Huxley
Scientific progress goes boink - Calvin and Hobbes
Less of a quote, more of a book title.
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@scottalanmiller couldn't help myself once triggered by the previous post - an excellent book
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I have that book.
