Michael Ryan

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“following a [software development] process as agile as a cashier on Quaaludes.”
― Eric Brechner, I. M. Wright's Hard Code

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“If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.”
― Rushworth M Kidder, How Good People Make Tough Choices

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“Hannah Arendt has argued that revolutions occur when contempt for bad governance becomes so widespread and corrosive that the system simply collapses -- a theory demonstrated by the fall of communism. So it may be useful to spread and intensify contempt for the boss by slyly fomenting sedition in the photocopying room.”
― Michael Foley, The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

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“We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond the words. Nobody knows what suffering or sacrifice mean—except, perhaps the victims of the mysterious purpose of these illusions.”
― Joseph Conrad, Tales of Unrest

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“If you hang around the subprime lending business long enough, you'll meet your share of interesting borrowers: strippers, cons, pimps, thugs and various other upstanding citizens of the community. These were not out typical customers. But if a borrower has credit problems and a checkered past, employment gaps and income from unverifiable sources, he usually ends up talking with a subprime lender.”
― Richard Bitner, Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider's Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance

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