The book This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes “But after a while, I learned not to waste my time, checking the numbers because the numbers were almost always right. However, if I checked the assumptions, they were almost always wrong.” Notes Overall reminded me of Supply Chain class. I like the process evaluation, it was funny that you can actually draw parallels between manufacturing and software development at large organizations.

The book This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about Letters to a Young Poet Quotes Xix- solitude is not merely a matter of being alone. It is a territory to be entered and occupied. XX – when doubts arise, simply “school them”: “Instead of being demolishers they will be among your best workers” Page 5 – things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable, occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated, and most unsayable of all are works of art

The book This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about Optimizing Oracle Performance book written around Oracle Version 9 Quotes Preface xix- In my experience, diagnosis is where people usually mess up. There are lots of experts out there responding sensibly to poorly collected diagnostic data in poorly specified projects. It is usually easy to solve a problem when it is presented to you correctly. It can be impossible to solve the right problems when you’re focused on the wrong problem

The book This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about Time Enough for Love Quotes 8- A society that gets rid of all the trouble makers goes downhill 10- The most sophisticated machine the human mind can build has in it the limitations of the human mind 20- I have no beliefs. Beliefs get on the way of learning 24- never take anybody’s word about whether a gun is loaded 31- If a man is greedy you can cheat him every time