Chris McGee

“By the way,” he said, “exactly how does one quaff?” “I think it means you spill most of it,” said Hwel.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“The coefficient of variation is a measure of variability that is computed as the ratio between the standard deviation and the mean of a probability distribution. You can think of it as a general measure of the relative breadth of a probability distribution. Since the square of the standard deviation is the variance of a distribution, this means that queues vary linearly with variance, a point worth remembering.”
― Donald G. Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development