Words of wisdom from IT professionals

“Whenever you have software controlling hardware, you’re gonna have problems.”
--Brent Short

“No matter how many times you’ve saved the company tons of money in recovered data or uptime, the one time you got caught playing Quake will always come up during your salary review.”
--Jim Kiley

“We have a name for IT professionals who have not experienced a catastrophic loss of data: inexperienced.”
--John Crighton

“The longer it takes a system to reboot, the more likely the problem you’re working on will require a reboot after every step.”
--Davis Conley

“Fast, cheap, correct. Pick any two—then hope you get at least one.”
--Roy Harvey

Thanks to Max for this funny email.

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