"The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works."

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Kent Beck

#Stories Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.”
“Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.”
“I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!”
“To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.”
“Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.”

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“Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.”
“Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]”
“Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.”

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