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Quote by Irvin S. Cobb

“You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.”

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Irvin S. Cobb was an American author known for his humorous and satirical short stories. His works often depicted everyday life with social satire and humor, which were well-received by readers. more

“Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Matter Would Be Order Half Projects Percent Tools Boxes Customers Productivity Improvement Code Burned Testing Cds Documentation

Author:Fred Brooks

“Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.”

Remember Opportunity Understanding Threat Enormous Defined Defence

Author:Barack Obama

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