The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov

I really love this definition….

DevOps mean giving developers the root password

Many people seem to think we are promoting a world where developers and system administrators all just run wild on the production systems and that it will somehow work out for the best. This is not what we are promoting at all. First, we are promoting closer cooperation between teams. Most companies will still have a development team and an operations team. DevOps are those individuals and processes that build the bridges between these teams.

via What DevOps Is Not — Agile Web Development & Operations.