Agile Software Quotes

#1. As an Agile software development team, we'd been following the hallowed eXtreme Programming tenets, including YAGNI. That is, You Aren't Gonna Need It: a caution to not write unnecessary code -

Anonymous

#2. The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.

Bertrand Meyer

#3. I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Sam Worthington

#4. Our opponent [ Representative John Lewis] is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

Sarah Palin

#5. The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Bruce Feiler

#6. In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

James Denney

#7. A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#8. New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.

Connie Kalitta

#9. Nico was devastatingly alone. He'd lost his big sister Bianca. He'd pushed away all other demigods who'd tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone.

Rick Riordan

#10. No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

Samuel Adams

#11. My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

John Edward

#12. The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

Naomi Wood

#13. To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.

Bertrand Meyer

#14. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

Robert C. Martin

#15. Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.

Charles F. Glassman

#16. Whatsoever is taken as real, becomes real. Whatsoever is taken as unreal, becomes unreal. You are the creator of your whole world around you; remember this.

Anonymous

#17. The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

Michael Connelly