{"id":2403,"date":"2006-11-27T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/the-sayings-of-phil-factor\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:48:57","slug":"the-sayings-of-phil-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/the-sayings-of-phil-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sayings of Phil Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Too many developers run their lives as though there was a celestial &#8216;Undo&#8217; button.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IT Manager&#8217;s job is to produce long words to cover up the mistakes of his staff&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Developers have knowledge but can&#8217;t express it, whereas trainers have none, but can&#8217;t stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DBAs do not die, they are just dropped by The Superuser&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Books-On-Line&#8217;&#160;remembers the details, so I don&#8217;t have to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An onion will make you cry, but your manager is the only vegetable that can make you laugh&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That aint a database, it&#8217;s a spreadsheet!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God created Embedded SQL to torment DBAs for their sins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When visited by the IT director, we all expected him to sit on his elbow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the middle of the crowded railway carriage, he farted. He just said &#8216;Rollback&#8217;, and we all knew he was a DBA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If someone says &#8216;To be perfectly honest&#8230;&#8217;, then hurriedly count your spoons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a programmer, I attribute my successes to jogging, abstinence and fasting. I&#8217;ve never done any of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The act of prayer should never be like negotiating a service-level agreement with God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cursors were created tongue-in cheek, but procedural progammers didn&#8217;t understand the joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A DBA should always stand up to programmers, the worm may turn, but the other side is pretty similar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Software companies that plagiarise the work of others are always the most suspicious of being plagiarised&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In programming, it is wiser to profit from good advice than to give it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only people who are confident that they understand IT issues are the senior management.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God sends us the data, the devil gives us the DBAs&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A database is a rational logical universe. 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