I've long said something like "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer."

I may have to upgrade that to take the mighty power of Cloud (TM) into account, though. Billions and trillions of fuck ups per second are now well within reach!

I can't wait until quantum computing lets us add a degree of simultaneity to fucking up. Fuck up in many ways... AT ONCE!

Quantum computing: giving humans the unprecedented ability to make every possible error at once

It will be fucked, not fucked, neither, and both... until we look. I feel bad for the poor bastard that has to look...

Internship in the future just got a whole lot bleaker.

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It will not be certain if you have fucked up or not until you actually go to check.

But checking affects the outcome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

> I've long said something like "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer."

This quote (paraphrased) actually dates all the way back to 1969:

> To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

-- http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/07/foul-computer/

Yes, it is. I believe I added the concept of "fuckups per second", but my memory being what it is and the general creativity of the internet being what it is, I would not be surprised that it either wasn't original or I wasn't the first.

> "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer."

If you made that up, I tip my hat off to you as payment for all my future uses of the phrase.

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exception of handguns and tequila." -- Mitch Ratcliffe

I would go with: "To err is human; to cascade, DevOps."

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