A Staff Engineer at Google told me this today and I thought it was absolute gold:
"Technical confidence comes from one of two things: ignorance or experience"
Well, it took 29 years, but I finally watched the original Jurassic Park, a cautionary tale about understaffing your engineering department and letting people push code directly to prod.
Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
No.
Ham?
No.
Pork chops?
Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Oh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
#TheSimpsons