Alistair Cockburn Quotes

#1. Good ideas die every day" in command-and-control companies.

Brian M. Carney

#2. A love as intense as the one we shared, one that had not dimmed through years of betrayal but had only grown, was terrifying. We had the power to destroy, to devastate and ruin, to lay the other to waste.

A.L. Jackson

#3. Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

Lawrence Tierney

#4. 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

Alistair Cockburn

#6. Angel," he murmured, clasping my face between his hands. "I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#7. Spend and be free, but make no waste.

John Ray

#8. Nothing great ever happens overnight. Greatness takes time #justsayin

Timothy Pina

#9. I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

Alistair Cockburn

#10. I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#11. Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#12. he published a manifesto with a title Darwinists have been quoting ever since: "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution."78

Tom Wolfe

#13. A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).

Alistair Cockburn

#14. In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

Floyd Skloot

#15. If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,

Yayoi Kusama

#16. We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

Alistair Cockburn

#17. Time is a structured perception towards observable changes.

Toba Beta

#18. Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

Alistair Cockburn

#19. We get things wrong before we get things right.

Alistair Cockburn