"The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours."

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Source : Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.45, Microsoft Press

Steve McConnell

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“The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.”
“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.”
“Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.”
“You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?”
“Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.”
“Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts”
“Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature -- screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon -- the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.”

Source : "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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