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In my limited experience I've dealt with long-lived network partitions in a single data center (DC), PDU (power distribution unit) failures, switch failures, accidental power cycles of whole racks, whole-DC backbone failures, whole-DC power failures, and a hypoglycemic driver smashing his Ford pickup truck into a DC's HVAC [heating, ventilation, and air conditioning] system. And I'm not even an ops guy.

Coda Hale

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Laozi

This is the best of times for those willing to study, learn quickly, work hard ... learn from the past to succeed in the future.

Robert Kiyosaki

The key is having more information than the other guy - then analyzing it right and using it rationally.

Warren Buffett

No price is too low for a bear
or too high for a bull.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success.

Mohnish Pabrai

The market does not run on chance or luck.
Like the battlefield, it runs on probabilities and odds.

David Dreman

If an individual learns the trade -
then they don't need the tricks.

Fred McAllen

The greatest investors, traders, and speculators of all time have one thing in common.
They understand the market does not always go up, they recognize the market moves in trends and cycles, and they capitalize on that knowledge.

Fred McAllen

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

Kenneth Chang

Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock.
After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.

Richard Thaler

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others re fearful.

Warren Buffett

If something is important enough
you should try even if the probable
outcome is failure.

Elon Musk

You can never understand everything.
But, you should push yourself to understand the system.

Ryan Dahl (creator of Node.js)

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Charles Dickens

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the values of life.

Charles Darwin

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.

Chinese proverb

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Unknown

When motivation fails you,
discipline backs you up.

Unknown

Buy when there's blood in the streets,
even if the blood is your own.

Barron Rothschild

Reoccurring patterns occur over and over
because stocks are driven by humans and human nature never changes.

Jesse Livermore

You can't develop discipline until your patience coming first.

The Inner Circle Trader

We determined the best thing for us to do
was basically take the human being out of the quation.

Bernard Madoff

All you need is one pattern to make a living. (trading)

Linda Raschke

The most important rule of trading is to play great defense, not great offence.

Paul Tudor Jones

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Shakespeare

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Proverb

He who treads softly goes far.

Chinese proverb

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Christopher Reeve

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

It aitn't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

Complexity is the enemy of execution.

Anthony Robbins

Skipping lattes won't make you wealthy.

T. Harv Eker

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Alexander Elder

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

The key to trading success is emotional discipline.
If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

Victor Sperandeo

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

Grethen Rubin

Without commitment, you'll never start... without consistency, you'll never finish.

Denzel Washington

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

> Always focus on what you want, rather than the absence of what you want.

> The ego loves nothing more than to get "busy".

Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading,
and always, first and foremost, protecting your butt.

Paul Tudor Jones

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Anthony Robbins

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has a genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo Da Vinci

A memory without emotional charge is called wisdom.

Dr. Joe Dispenza

Do what you like in life, not what you feel you "should" do.

Jim Simons

Bad ideas is good, good ideas is terrific, no ideas is terrible.

Lenny Baum at IDA

Getting fired can be a good thing.
You just don't want to make a habit of it.

Jim Simons

Truth ... is much too complicated to allow for anything but approximations.

John von Neumann

The name of the game is not to always be right, but to be right often enough.

Rene Carmona

I strongly believe, for all babies and a significant number of grownups, curiosity is a bigger motivator than money.

Elwyn Berlekamp

We're in the insurance business. (talking about automated trading)

Elwyn Berlekamp

Never send a human to do a machine's job.

Agent Smith in the film The Matrix

Do not save what is left after spending; instead, spend what is left after saving.

Warren Buffet

Knowledge is an adventure of ideas.

Popper

I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority, since it is always the more intelligent.

Goethe

Those who have knowledge don't predict. Those who predict don't have knowledge.

Lao Tzu

One become great through expecting the possible, another by expecting the eternal; but he who expected the impossible become greater than all.

Soren Kiekegaard

Any kind of action is imperfect in so far as it is willed of conscious.

Friedrich Nietzshe

You don't need to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

Complaining is never of any use: it comes from weakness.

Friedrich Nietzshe

Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Dostoyevsky

There is an inexplicable sense of being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or a philosopher.

Naskar

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that anyone became great by winning the big lottery prize.

Soren Kierkegaard

Absence of hardship is the real hardship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good people will do what they find honorable to do, even if it requires hard work; they'll do it if it causes them injury; they will do it even if it will bring danger. They will not do what they find base, even if it brings wealth, pleasure, or power.
Nothing will deter them from what is honorable, and nothing will lure them into what is base.

Seneca

The men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Voltaire

Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

John Salak

> They are great because they work hard on the things that come easy to them.

So, who really is the free man? In my eyes, the ultimately free man is not really a warrior, but an explorer, one that tries new paths and finds what he/she is best at doing. This person works hard to achieve their goals and when work meets passion, freedom is born.

Atanas Matov

Life is a search for the truth: there is no truth.

Chinese proverb

Trading wisdom goes to those traders who are not giving up in asking one more question, day after day.

Atanas Matov

The masses have never "thirsted" after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Gustave Le Bon

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

What can be predicted easily does not carry much value; it is the unexpected that brings all the wealth.

Atanas Matov

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

A man who willingly acknowledges his own weakness is strong in his own way.

Ken Liu

Repetition can be boring or tedious - which is why so few people ever master anything.

Hal Elrod

I would rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman