# Quotes >[!Quotes: 'a good quote is like a good friend; it will be there when you need it most.']- >- _"When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens” – Amos Tversky >- _“Happiness is only real when shared”_ – Chris McCandless >- _“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible” –_ Walt Disney >- “_A society grows great when old people plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit” –_ Greek Proverb >- _“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all” –_ Futurama >- _“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior” –_ Stephen Covey >- _“You cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that created it”_ – Albert Einstein >- _“I have never met anyone from whom I could not learn”_ – Jane Addams >- Two contradicting quotes that ring true in the right situations. In my opinion, being a good project manager is determining which situations warrant which mantra: > - _“Perfection is the enemy of progress” –_ Winston Churchill > - “_Anything worth doing is worth doing right”_ – Hunter S. Thompson >- _“A problem properly stated is a problem partly solved”_ – Henry Hazlitt >- *“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”* – Ludwig Wittgenstein >- *"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair"* >*- "If the highest aim of a captain was the preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever*" >*- "However, technology keeps moving on, and I think it is important to question the status quo from time to time.*" – Martin Kleppmann # Books > [!Books that made a lasting impact...]- > - The Giver by Lois Lowry > - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini > - The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis > - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky > - The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling > - Flower for Algernon by Daniel Keyes > - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams # Learning Resources > [!The sources for much of this website...]- > - For AWS: [AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) | learn.cantri](https://learn.cantrill.io/p/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c03) > - For understanding data applications: [Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) — an O’Reilly book by Martin Kleppmann (The Wild Boar Book)](https://dataintensive.net/) > - The content is the best part about this book, but I also love the tone. It reminds me of one of my mentors. There's nothing wrong with a [[little bit of snarkiness in discussing technology architecture]]. > - For System Design Interviews: [Hello Interview | Own Your Next Software Engineering Interview](https://www.hellointerview.com/)