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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well?

It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.”
― Tom Robbins

“Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“People who feel untrusted have little inclination to bond together into a cooperative team.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“People under time pressure don’t think faster.”    —Tim Lister Think rate is fixed. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you can’t pick up the pace of thinking.”
― Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler