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There's nothing more dangerous than an idea if its the only one you have. -Mark Twain Read more →

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And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong! MORAL. So oft in theologic wars, The disputants,... Read more →

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It is more helpful to think like a farmer, than an engineer or an architect in designing [complex systems]... Engineers and architects need to design every detail of the system. This approach is possible because the responses of the componens... Read more →

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He suffers from the distinct condition of being wrong British attorney general when speaking about a fellow member of parliament. Applicable to many conversations in our project management domain Read more →

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If the facts (evidence) are against you, argue the law (principle). If the law (principle) is against you, argue the facts (evidence). If the law (principle) and the facts (evidence) are against you, pound the table and yell like hell... Read more →

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Only the generalist survive An immutable principle of evolutionary biology. Read more →

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A story, probably apocryphal but I love it, was when Napoleon was told about a man who had a severe social impediment, which was that whenever there was any ambiguity, this man would take the wrong interpretation. It would intensely... Read more →

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"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." - Pablo Picasso Read more →

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To argue to the person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Payne Read more →

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A Dull Knife is Far More Dangerous Than a Sharp One Read more →

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Our knowledge consequently reflects the world. It does this ore or less, but it reflects the world we inhabit. This communication between ourselves and the world is not what distinguishes us from the rest of nature. All things are continually... Read more →

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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic - Norman R. Augustine, Law VIII Read more →

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“The winning general is the one who can best act on imperfect information and half-formed theories.” – Napoleon Bonaparte All decisions in the presence of uncertainty require making estimates of the reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create risk. Knowing the... Read more →

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The difference between failure and success is the difference between doing something almost right and doing something right - Benjamin Franklin Read more →

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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?... Read more →

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If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the questions, and only five minutes finding the answers - attributed to Albert Einstein. When we hear a proposed solution to an observed problem... Read more →

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Forgetfulness in the learner's souls, because they will not use their memories ... they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome... Read more →

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill The management of software development is fraught with risk: technical risk, market risk, requirements risk, and... Read more →

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest,... Read more →

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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it." The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability... Read more →