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““the systems most prone to failure are also our most important and are at the epicenter of our most urgent changes. When””

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“Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: “You name them and when they get sick,…

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“To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.”

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“work can bounce between teams endlessly due to incomplete information, or work can be passed onto downstream work centers with problems that remain completely…

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“practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of…

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“habits are what enable mastery.”

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“20% on detailed planning (Their poor throughput and high lead times were misattributed to faulty estimation, and so, hoping to get a better answer,…

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“Features are always a gamble. If you’re lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.”

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“I listen to Wes and Patty brainstorm ideas to reduce yet another dependency on Brent when something starts to bother me. Erik called WIP,…

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The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

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When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take…

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Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,…

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No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

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“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might…

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Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle…

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad...

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God's love never fail :)

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Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve…

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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