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

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.

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.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I? I lets 'em.

I like a woman with priorities.

That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.