Erasistratos Quotes & Sayings

It's not a crime to get drunk. — Joe Bob Briggs

Beyond 60% utilization, the average response time doubles. By 80%, it has tripled. As disk I/O latency is often the bounding resource for an application, increasing the average latency by double or higher can have a significant negative effect on application performance. This is why disk utilization can become a problem well before it reaches 100%, as it is a queueing system where requests (typically) cannot be interrupted and must wait their turn. — Brendan Gregg

While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change. — Robin Sharma

The distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos. — James Henry Breasted

I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever. — Ben Lerner

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team. — Darby Stanchfield

What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me. — Blake Butler

Life is a disease ... — Gail Godwin

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead. — Kevin McCarthy

This may be a shitty work environment, but OSHA doesn't have any guidelines when it comes to ghosts. We'll have to make up our own as we go. — Cherie Priest