Quotes

“Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new.”

“If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.”

“The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.” – Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. — Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), The Note Book

“The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it.” — L.W. Lynett

“The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of utmost danger.” — Lucan

“A passive-aggressive person is like a large Great Dane that’s got you pinned to the wall with his front paws and is licking your face, while he pees on your leg.” — John Bradshaw

“Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything they do not make more clear.” — Joseph Joubert

“The usual choice is not between the good and the bad but between the bad and the worse.”– French Proverb(sounds like most enterprise software packages to me…)