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To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops - DevOps Borat

I've long said something like "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer."

I may have to upgrade that to take the mighty power of Cloud (TM) into account, though. Billions and trillions of fuck ups per second are now well within reach!

I can't wait until quantum computing lets us add a degree of simultaneity to fucking up. Fuck up in many ways... AT ONCE!

Quantum computing: giving humans the unprecedented ability to make every possible error at once

It will be fucked, not fucked, neither, and both... until we look. I feel bad for the poor bastard that has to look...

shrodinger's buttocks

Internship in the future just got a whole lot bleaker.

It will not be certain if you have fucked up or not until you actually go to check.

But checking affects the outcome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

> "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer."

If you made that up, I tip my hat off to you as payment for all my future uses of the phrase.

> I've long said something like "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer."

This quote (paraphrased) actually dates all the way back to 1969:

> To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

-- http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/07/foul-computer/

Yes, it is. I believe I added the concept of "fuckups per second", but my memory being what it is and the general creativity of the internet being what it is, I would not be surprised that it either wasn't original or I wasn't the first.

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exception of handguns and tequila." -- Mitch Ratcliffe

I would go with: "To err is human; to cascade, DevOps."

In #devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script - DevOps Borat

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