"The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed."

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Source : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects”, p.57, Addison-Wesley

Tom DeMarco

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“The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.”
“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
“You have to find the line between working hard and being a workaholic. I know a lot of those bigger-name guys are workaholics, and I don't know if I want to go that far. One day I would like to have a relationship and a normal social life, so it's all about striking that balance.”

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“The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.”
“I used up every cent I earned as an actress.”
“Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.”
“In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.”
“I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.”

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