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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

      I often want to have a place to store quotes. So, going to collect them here. I'll edit as I add them. I encourage others to respond and maintain their own, edited post with great IT quotes. Often these are my own quotes because I forget what I've said and hate when that happens - and I have a huge ego.

      High Availability is not something that you buy, it is something that you do. - John Nicholson

      From standardization comes simplicity. - Scott Alan Miller

      Complexity is the enemy of reliability and security. - Scott Alan Miller

      One of the most important aspects of any IT decision is managing and reducing risk. - Scott Alan Miller

      Doable is always easier than impossible. - Scott Alan Miller

      Being lucky is not the same as having made a good decision. - SAM

      That's like shooting yourself in the face today to avoid maybe getting a headache next year. - SAM

      That's like looking under the hood of your car to figure out why Jiffy Lube isn't open on Sundays. - SAM

      Salesmen are not responsible for doing your due diligence for you. - SAM

      Avoiding planned downtime is planning for unplanned downtime. - SAM

      Strict organizational hierarchy is a socially acceptable way of stating "intentionally suppressing exposure". - SAM

      Raises are given when the company is healthy, titles are given when things are going badly. - SAM

      RAID 0 has redundancy, just redundancy of the risk rather than redundancy of the data. - SAM


      There is no Uber, only other people's cars. - Chad Wilson

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      • gjacobse
        gjacobse last edited by

        IT happens, so get on with IT

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        • thanksajdotcom
          thanksajdotcom last edited by

          KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid

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          • thanksajdotcom
            thanksajdotcom last edited by thanksajdotcom

            "If I can get the packets to the cloud, I can make magic" - Scott Haskins, CTO of Pertino

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            • gjacobse
              gjacobse last edited by

              "Don't let the magic smoke out, IT is what makes it all work" My electronics teacher.

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                Carnival Boy @scottalanmiller last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said:

                Often these are my own quotes because I have a huge ego

                😉

                Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do - Steve Jobs

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                • gjacobse
                  gjacobse last edited by

                  Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy., - Joseph Campbell

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                  • Nic
                    Nic last edited by

                    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
                    –Andrew Tanenbaum

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                    • nadnerB
                      nadnerB last edited by

                      This was a quote from someone on SpiceWorks but I can't remember who posted it 😞
                      SysAdmin.jpg

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                      • NetworkNerd
                        NetworkNerd last edited by NetworkNerd

                        This will always be one of my favorites (quoting @scottalanmiller 😞

                        That's like shooting yourself in the face today to avoid maybe getting a headache next year.

                        (Taken from http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/232833-creatively-rebuilding-a-server-infrastructure-on-vsphere-5-and-backing-it-up?page=4)

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller last edited by

                          That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!

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                          • NetworkNerd
                            NetworkNerd @scottalanmiller last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!

                            Maybe you should start a database of SAM analogies.

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                            • scottalanmiller
                              scottalanmiller @NetworkNerd last edited by

                              @NetworkNerd said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              That's why I had to have this thread, I forget some of these!

                              Maybe you should start a database of SAM analogies.

                              I need to do that too

                              At least I started recording the quotes.

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                              • lance
                                lance last edited by

                                It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller @lance last edited by

                                  @lance said:

                                  It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller

                                  Love it, any idea when or where I originally said it?

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                                  • lance
                                    lance @scottalanmiller last edited by lance

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @lance said:

                                    It is neither rude nor condescending to trust someone and assume that they did use common sense themselves. -Scott Alan Miller

                                    Love it, any idea when or where I originally said it?

                                    It's good stuff. Here is a link https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/122118-virtualization-can-i-host-a-64-bit-vm-on-a-32-bit-host?page=2

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                                    • MattSpeller
                                      MattSpeller last edited by

                                      Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape on the highway - unknown

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller @MattSpeller last edited by

                                        @MattSpeller said:

                                        Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape on the highway - unknown

                                        –Andrew Tanenbaum

                                        See a few posts to the north.

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                                        • MattSpeller
                                          MattSpeller @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller good grief that's twice now that I've done that today. Thank you for the correction & attribution.

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                                          • gjacobse
                                            gjacobse last edited by

                                            ("It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature!"

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