"Life is hard, harder if you are stupid"

-- Uknown

“Two mice fell into a bowl of cream. The first mouse gave up and died right away. The second mouse fought and swam until he churned that cream into butter and he crawled his way out.” 

– Christopher Walken

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

~ Lance Armstrong

Us geeks usually implement clusters because the business wants higher availability.  Higher availability means faster troubleshooting when the system is down.  We need to be able to get the system back up and running as quickly as possible.  Getting there usually means reducing the amount of complexity; complex systems take longer to troubleshoot.

~Brent Ozar

Like you here all the time, Keep it simple stupid, or the nicer way, keep it stupid simple.

"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."

~Justin (@shitmydadsays)

"Try none."
"Do or do none"

--Yoda

"Fear is the path to the dark side..."
"Fear leads to anger, Anger leads to hate, Hate leads to Suffering."

--Yoda

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

-Aristotle

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody. ~Unknown

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

-Benjamin Franklin

"UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not."

~Dr. Seuss

"The future is easy because it doesn't exist, but the past is painful because it lives forever"

-Fred Durst