The Lone Sysadmin

“The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.”

- Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
— Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), The Note Book

“The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.”

– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it.”

– L.W. Lynett

“The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of utmost danger.”

– Lucan

“A passive-aggressive person is like a large Great Dane that’s got you pinned to the wall with his front paws and is licking your face, while he pees on your leg.”

– John Bradshaw

“Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything they do not make more clear.”

– Joseph Joubert

“The usual choice is not between the good and the bad but between the bad and the worse.”– French Proverb(sounds like most enterprise software packages to me…)