Quotes About Evolution

Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: "You name them and when they get sick, you nurse them back to health. [Now] servers are [treated] like cattle. You number them and when they get sick, you shoot them.

By relentless and constant experimentation in their daily work, they were able to continually increase capacity, often without adding any new equipment or hiring more people.

the Third Way focuses on creating a culture of continual learning and experimentation. These

Ward Cunningham in 2003. He said, 'technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

Even high-profile product and feature releases become routine by using dark launch techniques. Long before the launch date, we put all the required code for the feature into production, invisible to everyone except internal employees and small cohorts of real users, allowing us to test and evolve the feature until it achieves the desired business goal.

Anthropologists describe tools as a cultural artifact.

The Phoenix Project is ultimately a book about transformation, and so it is incredibly gratifying to see it being used as an instrument to create transformations in real life as well.

In 1958, the Fortune 500 tenure was 61 years; now it's only 18 years.

we value improvement of our daily work more than daily work itself.

Mike Rother observed in Toyota Kata that in the absence of improvements, processes don't stay the same—due to chaos and entropy, processes actually degrade over time.

Technology keeps changing faster and faster, and it's nearly impossible to keep up anymore.

Just how many times can you throw out everything you know to keep up with the latest new-fangled trend

technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

Mike Rother says that it almost doesn't matter what you improve, as long as you're improving something. Why? Because if you are not improving, entropy guarantees that you are actually getting worse, which ensures that there is no path to zero errors, zero work-related accidents, and zero loss.

We all know we need to change how QA does testing, but the best place to start is by changing how Dev does testing.

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license."†

THE PROBLEM: SOMETHING IN YOUR ORGANIZATION MUST NEED IMPROVEMENT (OR YOU WOULDN'T BE READING THIS BOOK)

doing the same thing twice will not predictably or necessarily lead to the same result. It is this characteristic that makes static checklists and best practices, while valuable, insufficient to prevent catastrophes from occurring. See

DevOps isn't about automation, just as astronomy isn't about telescopes.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it. Gene Roddenberry

The only problem is that it's difficult to imagine something entirely new. We use the words and definitions of the past to shape our ideas. Something that is genuinely the next evolutionary step is unlikely to resemble anything we can imagine. Even the best books on the subject are limited." She'd

We are what we make ourselves

I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually.