Definitive Quotes

“So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.”
― Marcel Proust

“Yes is like credit, No is like cash.”
― C.J. Langenhoven

“...give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles. Each professional employee is a "member of technical staff.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering