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Clockwork cosmologies had come after physical clocks; computer cosmologies had come after physical computers.

Permutation City

Greg Egan

Two of Lean’s central tenets include the deeply held belief that the manufacturing lead time required to convert raw materials into finished goods is the best predictor of quality, customer satisfaction, and employee happiness, and that one of the best predictors of short lead times is small batch sizes of work. Lean principles focus on how to create value for the customer through systems thinking by creating constancy of purpose, embracing scientific thinking, creating flow and pull (versus push), assuring quality at the source, leading with humility, and respecting every individual.

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

This spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

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