"Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack."

-- Tom DeMarco

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“If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.”
“I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.”
“Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.217, Chicken House
“I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.”
“If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as wellâ€”as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youthâ€”then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.”

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.126, University of Chicago Press
“The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.”
“I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.”

Source : "My life as the man in black" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.
“I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.”

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