If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Quote of the Week 46

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
― Lewis Carroll



A paraphrase of an exchange between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Triggered by Thomas Stiehm's use of the quote in his presentation "Continuous Build and other DevOps anti-patterns, and how to overcome them" (slide 4).

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