"The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified."

-- Fred Brooks

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“Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.”
“When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.”
“You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.11, Random House
“Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.”
“Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so much competition. I'm quite happy to wait, and quite confident that the muses will cross the stream.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them.”
“It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.”
“Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.”

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