"Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality."

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Source : Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.326, Apress

Jessica Livingston

#Quality Quotes

“People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me ***** and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.”
“Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.”
“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”
“We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.”
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”

Source : "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
“Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”
“Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.”
“Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.”

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