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| #3621 | | "Don't think; let the machine do it for you!"
-- E. C. Berkeley
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| #3622 | | "It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan
which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons,
insist of the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather
than be the instrument of his army's downfall."
-- Napoleon, "Military Maxims and Thought"
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| #3623 | | "(The Chief Programmer) personally defines the functional and performance
specifications, designs the program, codes it, tests it, and writes its
documentation... He needs great talent, ten years experience and
considerable systems and applications knowledge, whether in applied
mathematics, business data handling, or whatever."
-- Fred P. Brooks, _The Mythical Man Month_
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| #3624 | | "It ain't over until it's over."
-- Casey Stengel
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| #3625 | | "If anything can go wrong, it will."
-- Edsel Murphy
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| #3626 | | "Yo baby yo baby yo."
-- Eddie Murphy
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| #3627 | | "You must learn to run your kayak by a sort of ju-jitsu. You must learn to
tell what the river will do to you, and given those parameters see how you
can live with it. You must absorb its force and convert it to your users
as best you can. Even with the quickness and agility of a kayak, you are
not faster than the river, nor stronger, and you can beat it only by
understanding it."
-- Strung, Curtis and Perry, _Whitewater_
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| #3628 | | Everyone who comes in here wants three things:
1. They want it quick.
2. They want it good.
3. They want it cheap.
I tell 'em to pick two and call me back.
-- sign on the back wall of a small printing company in Delaware
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| #3629 | | "More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all
other causes combined."
-- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
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| #3630 | | "Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile."
-- Karl Lehenbauer
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