Quotes About Independence

When everyone is conditioned to believe that no isn't an acceptable answer, we all just became compliant order takers, blindly marching down a doomed path. I

because everything is being recorded, we may not need to ask someone else for help in the future—we simply search for it.

Because our goal is to enable small teams of developers to independently develop, test, and deploy value to customers quickly and reliably, this is where we want our constraint to be. High performers, regardless of whether an engineer is in Development, QA, Ops, or Infosec, state that their goal is to help maximize developer productivity.

developers should be able to understand and update the code of a service without knowing anything about the internals of its peer services. Services

a system where small teams of engineers are able to work productively and independently of each other, with components painstakingly and splendidly isolated from each other, instead of being complected into a giant, ugly, knotty mess.

By adding the expertise of QA, IT Operations, and Infosec into delivery teams and automated self-service tools and platforms, teams are able to use that expertise in their daily work without being dependent on other teams.

I need you to say no! We cannot afford to have this leadership team be order takers. We pay you to think, not just

I'm now as free as the breeze — with roughly the same income.

Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.

As Charles Stewart Parnell called out during the Irish rent strike campaign in 1879 and 1880: It is no use relying on the Government . . . . You must only rely upon your own determination . . . . Help yourselves by standing together . . . strengthen those amongst yourselves who are weak . . . , band yourselves together, organize yourselves . . . and you must win . . . When you have made this question ripe for settlement,then and not till then will it be settled.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.

Thanks, but no thanks, Mr. President. I feel the mission will only be successful if I go alone. It's not as if I don't appreciate any help I can get. It's just...something in the back of my mind is telling me not to take anyone with me, something I can't quite explain. Must be another one of my weird hunches, I guess.

Gilda, if your marriage is so bad why don't you get out of it?" "I'm afraid to be alone.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.

Redefining oneself is something we all have to do ... The only person who could ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

You may take it as you wish, Irene said. But I am not giving you my mission, and I am not giving you my student, and if I were the sort of person who kept pet rats, I would not give you my rat. Clear?

Blind faith is just another word for slavery,

I'm about to look up Evariste's record, and this time you don't get to lean over my shoulder.

We are all born with the ability to make our own choices. But once you make the wrong choice, other people make your decisions for you. 18.

Sometimes it seems easier to be Natalie. People force her to do stuff. I have to force myself.

I AM SIXTEEN," Nat says, like maybe I've lost my hearing. "I can go in by myself. I am the warden's daughter.

The present viewpoint is that Stalin proved to be the most resolute leader, that the Soviet Union exerted undue influence in reshaping the map of postwar Europe, and that a war purportedly begun to defend the independence of small European nations ended up by sacrificing them. The question — did Stalin outwit and outjostle Roosevelt and Churchill — will remain one of the enigmas of the 20th century.