Maria Cerase

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.”
― Donald G. Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
― Umberto Eco, 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.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones