When I loaded a phrase with adjectives and clauses, he responded, “This could be said with several pebbles removed from the mouth.”
“Almost everything we know about good software architecture has to do with making software easy to change”
― Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
― Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
“The biggest cause of failure in software-intensive systems is not technical failure; it’s building the wrong thing.”
― Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point
― Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point
“customers do not need scope. They need to have business goals accomplished within some constraints of time and cost.”
― Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point
― Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point
“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears.”
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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