Ron Jeffries famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.
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Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?
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It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it
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The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!
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One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.
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When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
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White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
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