RISK MANAGEMENT

‘A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.’

Source: Anon

CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT (SOFTWARE)

'..what really counts: the behavior that users need from the system.'

Source: Jez Humble and David Farley

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

‘At the heart of every large project is a small project trying to get out.’

Source: Anon

RESPONSIBILITY

‘No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.’

Source: Voltair

I HAVE NOT FAILED

‘I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.’

Source: Thomas Edison.

SPACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WHIRLPOOL

'If I had been Prime Minister, I'd have enjoyed the possibility of pleasure more than Mr Major did. Prime Ministers don't have to wear themselves out. They are in the middle of a whirlpool; they can be the calm ones and use the space to think.'

Source: Douglas Hurd

SYMPTOM OF DECAY

‘Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.’

Source: C. Northcote Parkinson.

QUIET COURAGE

‘Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”.’

Source: Mary Ann Radmacher

DEFEAT

‘Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.’

Source: Marilyn vos Savant

CORPORATIONS

'They [corporations] have no soul to save and they have no body to incarcerate.'

Source: Baron Thurlow

a) PROCRASTINATION OR b) GOOD PREPARATION?

'Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe’.

Source: Abraham Lincoln

SAVING TIME

‘I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it’.

Source: George Bernard Shaw