Sam Newman Quotes

#1. If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. ... If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.

Peter Singer

#2. If there is too much sharing, our consuming services become coupled to our internal representations. This decreases our autonomy,

Sam Newman

#3. our architects need to shift their thinking away from creating the perfect end product, and instead focus on helping create a framework in which the right systems can emerge, and continue to grow as we learn more.

Sam Newman

#4. Two different pieces of technology, Swagger and HAL, try to make this a reality, and both are worth looking at.

Sam Newman

#5. When we compare ourselves to engineers or architects, we are in danger of doing everyone a disservice.

Sam Newman

#6. We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

John Green

#7. if bridge building were like programming, halfway through we'd find out that the far bank was now 50 meters farther out, that it was actually mud rather than granite, and that rather than building a footbridge we were instead building a road bridge.

Sam Newman

#8. You'll often see posts about people beating the CAP theorem. They haven't. What they have done is create a system where some capabilities are CP, and some are AP. The mathematical proof behind the CAP theorem holds. Despite many attempts at school, I've learned that you don't beat math.

Sam Newman

#9. Gateway layers tend to take on more and more functionality, which itself can end up being a giant coupling point. And the more functionality something has, the greater the attack surface

Sam Newman

#10. Services should also hide their databases to avoid falling into one of the most common sorts of coupling that can appear in traditional service-oriented architectures, and use data pumps or event data pumps to consolidate data across multiple services for reporting purposes.

Sam Newman

#11. How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!

Bill Crawford

#12. Gather together those things that change for the same reason, and separate those things that change for different reasons.

Sam Newman

#13. You're afraid of becoming your dad. You don't want to choose the wrong thing, so you don't choose anything at all.

Nicola Yoon

#14. Raising Hellfire, I aim her at my final target, and then slowly pull the trigger. Hellfire discharges, sinking into the spiteful Arvy, bullet lodged right between its eyes. A trail of blood oozes down its pale face, before it drops backwards into the sea of bodies, lifeless.

Cameo Renae

#15. You should assume that your networks are plagued with malevolent entities ready to unleash their ire on a whim.

Sam Newman

#16. If these two couldn't divorce why on earth would we expect them to get married?

Jonathan Freedland

#17. Most CMSes are pretty bad even at doing page layout, typically providing drag-and-drop tools that don't cut the mustard. And even then, you end up needing to have someone who understands HTML and CSS to fine-tune the CMS templates. They tend to be terrible platforms on which to build custom code.

Sam Newman

#18. The Suicide, as she is falling,
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon.

Edward Gorey

#19. using this approach, which it then open sourced as the Aegisthus project

Sam Newman

#20. If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Ajahn Chah

#21. Solutions aren't discovered, they're bloody created.

Sarah Noffke