"Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm."

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Source : "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

Fernando J. Corbato

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“The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.”
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“Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.”
“Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.”
“For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.”

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“Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.”

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“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.”
“The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.”

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