"If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave."

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Source : Edward Yourdon (1998). “Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer”, Yourdon

Edward Yourdon

#Thinking Quotes #Quality Quotes #Management Quotes

“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”
“Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2015
“Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.”
“It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.”
“The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. Itâ€™s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.”
“I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“With "marriage," the word gets applied to same-sex marriages by proponents and opponents alike. That means the word itself is changing, and we reflect this change. But because of the idea that the dictionary is the objective voice of authority over culture and knowledge, it reads like approval. It's not a helpful way of looking at lexicography.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.”

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