“Any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion.”
- Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
"Sleep deprivation is a major judgment impair"
- Bryan Cantrill, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE
"Semi-automated systems are fraught with peril: the arrogance and power of automation -- but with human fallibility."
"It is a difficult thing to look at a winking light on a board, or hear a peeping alarm -- let alone several of them -- and immediately draw any sort of rational picture of something happening" -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Special Report on incident at Three Mile Island
The 20 questions game is real-world equivalent of debugging.