Capers Jones Quotes

#1. The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?

Simone Weil

#2. With change there is nothing you cannot deal with.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

Plutarch

#4. He wasn't just fucking me anymore - he was breeding me. Claiming me as his own, marking me so that no other male would come anywhere near me. Corbin owned me now - he had stamped his mark on my heart as surely as he was marking my body. I was his ... utterly and completely his.

Evangeline Anderson

#5. Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

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#6. The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

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#7. As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

Monica Lewinsky

#8. Being relevant simply consists in paying close attention to the point that is being talked about and saying nothing that is not significantly related to it.

Mortimer J. Adler

#9. High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

Capers Jones

#10. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Richard Perle

#11. Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

Capers Jones

#12. There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

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