"So I hope Iâ€™ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag."

-- Martin Fowler

#Flags Quotes #Red Quotes #Method Quotes

“Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....”
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
“The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect of a fog - gives things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.”
“Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.”
“Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.”

Source : Dan Poynter (2000). “Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books”, Para Pub
“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, Americaâ€”burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK
“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...”
“A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.”

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