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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by cjbprime on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:24PM (#13780016)
> 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/

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by jerf on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:59AM (#13782837)
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.
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