"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.."

-- Fred Brooks

#Two Quotes #Maintenance Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“Understand that the only possession of any value is life.”
“Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.”
“I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.”
“The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.”

Source : Baccalaureate Address at Brown University Delivered by His Highness the Aga Khan, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, www.brown.edu. May 26, 1996.
“I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.”
“If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.”
“This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.”
“Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.”

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