I like this quote from the "Where We Have Failed" paper: "We are very uncritical of systems created by the large Internet vendors to that solve application-spec

I like this quote from the "Where We Have Failed" paper: "We are very uncritical of systems created by the large Internet vendors to that solve application-specific problems, which have been written, until recently, by development teams with little background in DBMSs. As such, they have tended to reinvent the wheel. I am especially amused by Google’s adoption and then rejection of MapReduce and eventual consistency."