Edwin Dalorzo

“One writes out of a need to communicate and to commune with others, to denounce that which gives pain and to share that which gives happiness. One writes against one’s solitude and against the solitude of others. One assumes that literature transmits knowledge and affects the behavior and language of those who read.… One writes, in reality, for the people whose luck or misfortune one identifies with—the hungry, the sleepless, the rebels, and the wretched of this earth—and the majority of them are illiterate.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“To make matters worse, our customers don’t have a very good understanding of what we do, how we do it, or why we do it—the end result is that they put unrealistic demands on us and don’t give us the support that we need to accomplish their goals.”
― Scott W. Ambler, Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process

“it’s worthwhile to die for things without which it’s not worthwhile to live.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“It had been in that moment that he had realized the insanity of war, the futile gesture that in time became all but meaningless, the unreasoning rage that must be nursed long beyond the memory of the incident that had caused the rage, the sheer illogic that one man, by death of misery, might prove a right or uphold a principle.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station