Quotes About Author

Game of Thrones? No. Game of loans. I'm going to loan my foot to your ass." - Taliyah, the Cold Hearted

GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future.

Earlier Vale had said, "In the words of Gandalf, the battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin." Knox had understood the gist.

I had a routine. I spent my mornings reading The Iron Fey series.

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools

I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I'm nothing if not trendy.

Yes, I had disabled a six foot five satyr, caught him, and hoisted him into a chair without dropping my beer. If you think that's unlikely, you don't know how I feel about beer.)

Abject fear of pagan gods is little different from abject worship of them.

In his book, he states that the value of having a single repository for an entire organization is so powerful it is difficult to even explain.

Rest assured that we understand the urgency of the situation and that you'll be apprised of how it's going as soon as I find out myself.

Once we have centralized our logs, we can transform them into metrics by

creating application and infrastructure telemetry to be one of the highest return investments we've made. In

common practice of using rumor and hearsay, which can lead to the unfortunate metric of mean time until declared innocent—how quickly can we convince everyone else that we didn't cause the outage.

get enough seniority to get good things done but to keep your head low enough to avoid the political battles that make you inherently vulnerable.

want each group to write down every change they're planning, one change per index card. I want three pieces of information: who is planning the change, the system being changed, and a one-sentence summary.

There are newborn babies dropped off at church doorsteps with more operating instructions than what they're giving us.

He sounded just like that dude from Pulp Fiction. He even quoted the line about the day of reckoning and striking people down with great vengeance and furious anger.

This process of applying stress to increase resilience was named antifragility by author and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

human error is not our cause of troubles; instead, human error is a consequence of the design of the tools that we gave them.

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter — when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

Writing good humor requires a considerable amount of imagination and a great deal of discipline.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

It is my theory that the greater truths underlying life and death can be best be understood as a parable--that is, as a fiction.

Passageways between the Wings are always a little strange. I went through one once that you had to crawl through." "How did they move books through that?" "They didn't, usually. They routed them round some other way. But it was useful if you were in a hurry." He jerked a thumb at the window. "Have you ever seen anyone out there?