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“Software is so vital to military systems that, without it, most could not operate at all. Its importance to overall system performance and the generally accepted notion that software is always inadequate makes software the highest risk item and must... Read more →

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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated... Read more →

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If a profession is to sharpen its skills, to develop new skills and applications, and to gain increasing respect and credibility, then their and practices must be closely related -- Martin Shrub Read more →

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Without Metrics you're just another guy with an opinion - Stephan Leschka, Hewlett Packard Read more →

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... suddenly a White Rabit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh... Read more →

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You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art of war - Napoleon Bonaparte Read more →

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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: For thereby some have entertained angels unawares - Heb 13:2 The painted quote surrounding the recessed ceiling in our dining room, where friends and family have come for the holidays Read more →

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"For God's sake, Mane, do not strike at what you are looking but at what you intend to hit" - Nikola Tesla's father admonition to his cross-eyed helper while chopping wood on the farm, My Inventions, Nikola Tesla, published in... Read more →

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Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing ‒Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, 6 part series in Electrical Experimenter, Feb-Jun... Read more →

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I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine, And even, alas! Theology All through and through with ardour keen! Here now I stand, poor fool, and see I'm just as wise as formerly. Goethe (1808) Read more →

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“Nothing is more difficult and, therefore, more precious than to be able to decide.” Napoleon Bonaparte French General and Emperor, 1769-1821 If you're going to decide in the presence of uncertainty, you're going to have to estimate the outcome of... Read more →

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“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.” - Niels Bohr Read more →

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“I Have Tens of Thousands of Hours of Experience. I’ve made Every Mistake That They're Going to Make.” — ­Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on the importance of putting experienced leaders in Army Futures Command Read more →

Quote of the Day - Plucked by Puffery

To the layperson, puffery seems like a license to lie, which, frankly, isn’t totally wrong. A well-known book on torts by William Prosser and W. Page Keeton stated it this way: “The puffing rule amounts to a seller’s privilege to... Read more →

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There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and... Read more →

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"Uncertainty management is not just about managing perceived threats, opportunities, and their implications; it is about identifying and managing all the many sources of uncertainty that give rise to and shape our perceptions of threats and opportunities. It implies exploring... Read more →

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For companies where software is important to business operations and to the products that they market, excellence in software is a vital business goal. However, software has long been one of the most troublesome technologies of the 20th century, and... Read more →

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I am used to thinking three or four months in advance, about what I must do, and I calculate on the worst. If I take so many precautions, it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance.... Read more →

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Strategies are intellectually simple; their execution is not From "The CEO as Coach: An Interview with Allied Signal's Lawrence A. Bossidy," N. M. Tichy and R. Charan, Harvard Business Review, Mar-Apr, 1994, pp. 68-78. Read more →

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Critics are our friends, they show us our faults ― Benjamin Franklin Read more →