"Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening."

“Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.”

Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.501, Pearson Education

“Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.”

Source : Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.84, Zondervan

“You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who have declared every gain to be a trick of the capitalist class to buy us off. That line isn't very inspiring, and it shows no sensitivity to how social movements actually succeed.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“I've spent my life being embarrassed.”

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

“If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!”

Source : "Viewpoint", May 29, 2013.

“We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.”

“A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.”