"You can't control what you can't measure"

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Source : Robert L. Glass, Tom DeMarco (2006). “Software Creativity 2.0”, p.130, developer.* Books

Tom DeMarco

“What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?”

Source : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Two Heads are Better than One", 1846.
“I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that you think the audience will like, whether you like them or not. I think there has to be something that you find compelling and interesting, and then hopefully an audience will agree with you.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity. My personal list of must-read books presents a daunting challenge; I can't even imagine the pressure our head librarian must be under.”
“Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.”
“Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.”
“Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hulk Hogan from Oct 05, 2016
“Undertaker, your yard is right in the middle of my world!”
“The hardest part of your journey to success will be telling people your crazy dreams and ideas. But I've found as soon as you say your dreams aloud, many people will come to your side and help guide your journey in the right direction. During my 30 year journey with my disease I have discovered that you will always be surrounded by help, support and light if you stay positive in spite of hardships.”

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