

“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy

“The moral of the story is that a NoSQL system may find itself accidentally reinventing SQL, albeit in disguise.”
― Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
― Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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