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Quotes About Application

creating application and infrastructure telemetry to be one of the highest return investments we've made. In
~ Gene Kim
Indeed, one of the findings in the 2015 State of DevOps Report validated that the age of the application was not a significant predictor of performance; instead, what predicted performance was whether the application was architected (or could be re-architected) for testability and deployability.
~ Gene Kim
I wince, thinking about how this will tie up even more of our guys, doing menial work that the broken application should be doing. Nothing worries auditors more than direct edits of data without audit trails and proper controls.
~ Gene Kim
Work is not done when Development completes the implementation of a feature—rather, it is only done when our application is running successfully in production, delivering value to the customer.
~ Gene Kim
This process of applying stress to increase resilience was named antifragility by author and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
~ Gene Kim
Humble and Farley define the difference between unit and acceptance testing as, "The aim of a unit test is to show that a single part of the application does what the programmer intends it to....The objective of acceptance tests is to prove that our application does what the customer meant it to, not that it works the way its programmers think it should.
~ Gene Kim
Marketing falls prey to the crack between the technology enthusiast and the visionary by failing to discover, or at least failing to articulate, the compelling application that provides the order-of-magnitude leap in benefits. A
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
To get an early market started requires an entrepreneurial company with a breakthrough technology product that enables a new and compelling application, a technology enthusiast who can evaluate and appreciate the superiority of the product over current alternatives, and a well-heeled visionary who can foresee an order-of-magnitude improvement from implementing the new application.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
Kenntnis der Mittel ohne eine eigentliche Anwendung, ja ohne Gabe und Willen, sie anzuwenden, ist, was man jetzt gemeiniglich Gelehrsamkeit nennt.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Drew sent for Rachel's SS-5, the form she completed when she applied for a Social Security account number.
~ George G. Morgan
The point is not always to speculate, but also ultimately to think about applying our knowledge. Today, however, he who lives in conformity with what he teaches is taken for a dreamer.
~ Immanuel Kant
Es gibt nichts Praktischeres als eine gute Theorie.
~ Immanuel Kant
There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe; there's selective application of the rule of law. Patrick Chinamasa, who is the minister of justice, destroyed the independent judiciary.
~ Roy Bennett
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~ Friedrich Engels
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
~ George Santayana
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason; controlled by caution; sound in theory; practical in application; reflects confidence; spreads good cheer; raises morale; inspires associates; arouses loyalty; and laughs at adversity, it is beyond price.
~ Coleman Cox
Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.
~ Yula Moses
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.
~ Herbert A. Simon
Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
~ Remy de Gourmont
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.
~ David Seabury