Iron Gold
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“In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.”
― The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
― The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
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