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“Buy versus build. The most radical possible solution for constructing software is not to construct it at all.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“A special case of shifting the burden, which recurs with alarming frequency, is eroding goals. Whenever there is a gap between our goals and our current situation there are two sets of pressures: to improve the situation and to lower our goals. How these pressures are dealt with is central to the discipline of personal mastery,”
― Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

“Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run”
― Alan Shalloway, Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design

“the disaster is due to termites, not tornadoes; and the schedule has slipped imperceptibly but inexorably.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering