“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at… — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
“However, a real implementation may still have to include code to handle the case where something happens that was assumed to be impossible, even… — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
“In distributed systems, suspicion, pessimism, and paranoia pay off.” — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
“The moral of the story is that a NoSQL system may find itself accidentally reinventing SQL, albeit in disguise.” — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman, Rogers Commission Report (1986)” — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
“Hey I just met you The network’s laggy But here’s my data So store it maybe” — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
“Not waiting for something to complete (e.g., sending data over the network to another node), and not” — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that… — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
![“However, a real implementation may still have to include code to handle the case where something happens that was assumed to be impossible, even if that handling boils down to printf("Sucks to be you") and exit(666) — i.e., letting a human operator clean up the mess [93]. (This is arguably the…” quote by Martin Kleppmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cef/martin-kleppmann-49029_code_however-a-real-implementation-may-still_266485.jpg)
