Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

Process is not a substitute for skill.

Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

The most important question I ever asked a priest was where are the Bingo Dobbers at?

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.