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the profits from the Medici Bank have made Florence one of the architectural and cultural wonders of Europe, enabling the family to commission such artists as Donatello, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci. Yet even amongst such geniuses, it ...more
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“We don't try to change people. It doesn't work well... We accept people the way they are”
Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

Gerald M. Weinberg
“In fact, the average programming manager would prefer that a project be estimated at twelve months and take twelve than that the same project be estimated at six months and take nine. This is an area where some psychological study could be rewarding, but there are indications from other situations that it is not the mean length of estimated time that annoys people but, rather, the standard deviation in the actual time taken. Thus, most people would prefer to wait a fixed ten minutes for the bus each morning than to wait one minute on four days and twenty-six minutes once a week-. Even though the average wait is six minutes in the second case, the derangement caused by one long and unexpected delay more than compensates for this disadvantage. If”
Gerald M. Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming

Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Anthony Bourdain
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
Anthony Bourdain

Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius

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