Unintended features by Daniel Dib and Russ White

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• you're going to be wrong - i appreciate that i learned something new and that i have increased my knowledge base; research and try to be as accurate as possible and don't be sloppy
• appearance matters
• have patience - chill
• if you are automating someone's job away, don't expect a pat on the shoulder though - lol

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• There are no perfect solutions. There are no permanent solutions. Hard problems require complex solutions.
• I once talked to an architect at a large corporation who said, “our network is a mashed up ball of every failed networking product and system push by our primary vendor.
• I remember asking a network architect at a major bank once, “what architecture do you use in your data centers?” His reply? “We have every architecture our vendor has ever created and sold in at least one of our data centers someplace.”
• There is no such thing as “enterprise technology.” There is no such thing as “service provider technology.” There is just technology. The next time you're knee deep in a discussion about which technology to use and why, remember this one simple point. There is water, and there are pipes. Define the job. Use the right tool for the job. Finish the job.
• Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory,experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning.

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• Russ: If I had to choose a career path, I would choose the certification and work experience first, and then the degree. While it's not the easiest thing in the world to finish a degree once you're working, and you have a family, you're going to learn a lot more in a college classroom after you've had a little life experience, and you pick out the pieces that are important, while just working through the rest.
• SME = Subject Matter Expert

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• I once worked on an account where I'd been asking to come in and help them switch from EIGRP to IS-IS. Not because there were any problems, but because they were working on their CCIE's, and wanted to learn a second protocol. - perfect

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• OODA loop - Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
• If you have not found the tradeoff, then you have not looked hard enough
• The time that I worked through converting a network from OSPF to IS-IS because several folks on the networking staff were studying for the CCIE comes to mind... - hmm