"Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse"

-- Ellen Ullman

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“I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.”

Source : Wilford Woodruff, Brian H. Stuy (1988). “Collected Discourses of President Wilford Woodruff, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others, 1890-1892”
“Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.”
“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”

Source : John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.”
“Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.”
“It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
“It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.”

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