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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. John Maynard Keynes Read more →

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”A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.” ― John Ruskin Read more →

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This quote appeared in Skeptical Science as an environmental philosophy articulated in an ancient Native American proverb: Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do... Read more →

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If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. — Hannah Arendt Read more →

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Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants... Read more →

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"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings." - Robert Benchley Read more →

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21 Suggestions for Success – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more... Read more →

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Adopt the Pace of Nature: Her Secret is Patience - Ralph Waldo Emerson Read more →

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The tyranny of requirements is independent of the project management methodology “If someone is trying to contract for a system, and they can properly identify all the necessary ‘requirements’, then it makes sense to do so. The preference then usually... Read more →

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The tyranny of requirements is independent of the project management methodology “If someone is trying to contract for a system, and they can properly identify all the necessary ‘requirements’, then it makes sense to do so. The preference then usually... Read more →

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Qui enim teneat causas rerum futurarum, idem necesse est omnia teneat quae futura sint. Quod cum nem… – Cicero,De Divinatione, Liber primus, LVI, 127 [Roughly, He who knows the causes will understand the future, except no-one but god possesses such... 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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“A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” - Alexander Pope Read more →

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Our institutions are failing because they are disobeying laws of effective organization which their administrators do not know about, to which indeed their cultural mind is closed, because they contend that there exists and can exist no science competent to... Read more →

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Nessuna humana investigazione si dimandara vera scienzia s'essa non passa per le mathematoche dimomstrazione No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically - Leonardo da Vinci - 1452 - 1519 Read more →

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We bid you, then, who are priests in the realm of nature, to press on your labors with all vigor. See to it that mankind is not forever mocked by a philosophy empty, superficial, false, and uselessly subtle. Your heritage... Read more →

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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing the evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go into your library and read every book. - Dwight Eisenhower Read more →

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Increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is Rapid - Seneca Read more →

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For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong — H. L. Mencken Read more →

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“Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” - Cardinal Richard Cushing Just a reminder for all those agilest who wince at a Release Plan. Read more →