"It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental."

-- Steven Weinberg

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“To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.”
“I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.”
“I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.”
“I'd never complain about the attention - ever. I feel very fortunate to be doing what I love to do. Not everyone gets that chance every day. This is just part of it, and it comes down to managing my time to make sure I concentrate on my passion, which is the hockey, and have time away from hockey.”
“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When youâ€™re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
“It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.”
“Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.”
“We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.”

Source : Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.54, Pearson Education

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