"Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots"

“A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).”

Source : Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.126, Pearson Education

“A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

“Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.”

“It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.”

“There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.”

“Man's the bad child of the universe”

Source : James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

“Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.128, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.”