Dallin Coons

“Professionals speak truth to power. Professionals have the courage to say no to their managers.

How do you say no to your boss? After all, it's your boss! Aren't you supposed to do what your boss says?

No. Not if you are a professional.

Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But professionals are expected to say no. Indeed, good managers crave someone who has the guts to say no. It's the only way you can really get anything done.”
― Robert C Martin

“There was this one show in Green Bay when this kid was booing us loud and aggressively. Then The Ramones came on and he was booing them too. We went over to White Zombie’s tour manager and said, ‘This guy was booing us and that’s one thing, but now he’s booing The Ramones, and if you boo The Ramones you’re booing rock ‘n’ roll.’ So the tour manager went and plucked this kid out of the audience and kicked him out of the show for booing The Ramones. The poor kid had to wait in the cold without his jacket on and wait for his mommy to come and get him, all because he didn’t realize what he was doing. Monte:”
― Monte A. Melnick, On The Road With The Ramones

“Chaos was my philosophy. Oh, yeah. Have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.”
― John Lydon, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

“The problem is that we view estimates in different ways. Business likes to view estimates as commitments. Developers like to view estimates as guesses. The difference is profound.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers