"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)."

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

Alistair Cockburn

#Team Quotes #Technology Quotes #People Quotes

“A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.”
“It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
“To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.”
“How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.”
“God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.”
“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.”
“There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.”

Source : Han Nolan (2014). “Dancing on the Edge”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Take your passion and make it happen.”

Source : Song: Flashdance... What A Feeling, Album: What a Feelin', 1983

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