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“The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

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― James Shore, The Art of Agile Development: Pragmatic Guide to Agile Software Development

“All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I tried not to seem like a kid who’d just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“People get upset when you say you kill people. Fair enough.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“Let’s set the bar for ideas a little higher than not terrible.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“There I lay with my belly to the sky and with the rain soaking into me like I was a desert.”
― Doris Piserchia, Star Rider

“Some errors you can only see once you’ve committed them.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“We drink to the gods,” Amiit said, raising his bowl. “May they never drink to us.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Betrayal in Winter

“It doesn’t matter what you’ve done or seen. Every man’s a child until he’s a father. It’s the way the world’s made.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Betrayal in Winter

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“And so it came to pass, as you would imagine, since only the successful prophets are remembered.”
― Hilary Mantel

“The king is good to those who think him good.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Oh, you are not disappointing,” Henry says. “But the moment you are, I will let you know.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“The family stayed put for a few years, largely due to issues involving a contract with a demon, an open dimensional rift, and preschool . . .”
― Seanan McGuire

“Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.”
― Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“I loved him so much. Love him so much. I don’t know why I use the past tense. It’s not as if love dies with the beloved.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“I need some encouragement. I need to ask myself, “What would an Apollo astronaut do?” He’d drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I saw a shadow move in the hallway beyond the office. It was way too big to be the leprechaun.”
― Annie Bellet, Justice Calling

“It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Holloway would have to speak to him about it, for what little good it would do, Carl being a dog and all.”
― John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation

“An error which is not perpetuated cannot be viewed as any error at all.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“He seems an unlikely companion for a woman like Edie Banister, but the world, Daniel once observed, is a great honeycombed thing composed of separated mysteries.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“mean to set the story straight, because a lot of things have been said about me or by me that are not exactly true.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho' it might be true, was not very useful.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin