"As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications."

-- David Parnas

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“Nothing would make me happier than to train the next winner on 'The Biggest Loser' because it means the world to me. Everybody has a fighter inside them, they just don't realize it.”
“The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff (2006). “A Little Book of F-Laws”, p.2, Triarchy Press Limited
“I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.”
“You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.”
“They're implementing what was the strategy of Al Qaeda, which was to have attacks of different levels simultaneously. ... So the idea is, on the one hand you have these spectacular attacks that take months to plan, and others like Reda Hame, a French national, who went to Syria and was there for about a week, given a couple of days of target practice and one day of encryption training, sent back and arrested almost immediately.”
“I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.”
“Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.”
“There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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