Ghent Belgium Quotes

Patrick Debois was not there, but was so excited by Allspaw and Hammond’s idea that he created the first DevOpsDays in Ghent, Belgium, (where he lived) in 2009. There the term “DevOps” was coined.

Dear Minister, please let me know how many men are actually available in Hainaut, Ghent and Brussels, please also inform me of any measures that will allow you to remain in control of the situation if necessary, I wish you the assurance, dear minister, of my total devotion.

Quetelet was only 23 years old when he received the first doctorate of science to be awarded by the new University of Ghent. By that time, he had already studied art, written poetry, and co-authored an opera. He was also what the historian of statistics Stephen Stigler calls “an entrepreneur of science as well as a scientist.”12 He helped found several statistical associations, including the Royal Statistical Society of London and the International Statistical Congress, and for many years he was regional correspondent for the Belgian government’s statistical bureau. Around 1820, he became leader of a movement to found a new observatory in Belgium, even though his knowledge of astronomy at the time was scant. Once the observatory was established, he persuaded the government to fund a three-month stay in Paris so that he could study astronomy and meteorology and learn how to run an observatory.