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“QA and Development should be working together to ensure the quality of the system. The”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person. ”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,
it's a different kind of life.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
― Buckminster R. Fuller

“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“Dare to be naive.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, I Seem to Be a Verb

“God is a verb”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“Wealth is a person’s ability to survive a certain number of days forward.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“Every child is born a genius.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

“Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Friends don't count the cost of favors.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre