Simon Travaglia Quotes

Simon Travaglia — Author

The Bastard Operator From Hell is a fictional rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users, colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who pesters him with their computer problems. Several people have written stories about BOFHs, but the canonical one was created by Simon Travaglia. The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet by Travaglia, with some being reprinted in Datamation. They were published weekly from 1995 to 1999 in Network Week and since 2000 they have been published regularly in The Register. Several books of the stories have also been released... (wikipedia)

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia Quotes

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