"It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive."

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Source : Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.103, Microsoft Press

Steve McConnell

#Waiting Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Software Quotes

“Diversity in counsel, unity in command.”

Source : "Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus". Book by Michael A. Roberto, 2005.
“He doth nothing but talk of his horses.”
“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”
“Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.”
“The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.”
“Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas, John Berkman, Michael Cartwright (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.124, Duke University Press
“I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.”
“Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories”

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