"In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together."

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Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.51, Pearson Education

Steve McConnell

#Teamwork Quotes #Strong Quotes #Together Quotes

“The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.”
“Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.”

Source : "One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 1, 2004.
“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.”
“I was not a very good football player when I started out.”
“I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.”
“Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.”
“Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?”
“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving.Â Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

Source : Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.17, Penguin

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