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You can't control what you can't measure


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Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.



Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.



There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.



The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.



The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.



The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.



Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.



Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.



First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.



The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.





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To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.

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Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.



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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.



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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.



She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I growled before I could stop myself.

She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I growled before I could stop myself.



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I'm always a sucker for a love story.




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