Working together Quote by Gene Kim

“One of the most significant things they did to help change the outcomes of deployments was to have all Facebook engineers, engineering managers, and…

— Gene Kim

“The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers, fire the 175 troops and…

— Anonymous

“An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a…

— Ben Horowitz

“In this digital age, we're experiencing the weaponization of everything.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“It was a mystery with one intriguing clue: programmers from the same companies performed at more or less the same level, even though they…

— Susan Cain

“And now my blood ran cold. Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing…

— Charles Stross

“The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and…

— Ashlee Vance

“In ten years, I’m certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn’t intimately understand the IT systems…

— Gene Kim

“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.…

— John Wiley and Sons

“After CrowdStrike rebuilt the system, all of our staff had to learn new computers, new log-ins, new procedures, at the moment when their personal…

— Donna Brazile

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

— Bill Watterson