Poppendieck Quotes

#1. because the belief system has no doubt led to success in the past, so it will fight back with many varieties of self-fulfilling prophecies.

Mary Poppendieck

#2. The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

Halldor Laxness

#3. Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Janet Poppendieck

#4. There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

Ratan Tata

#5. Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

Janet Poppendieck

#6. We believe that only government has the capacity
not to mention the political and moral responsibility
to promote the general welfare.
Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

Janet Poppendieck

#7. Only expectation has value as currency,

Brandon Sanderson

#8. By defining the problem as "hunger," the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

Janet Poppendieck

#9. Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

George Arnold

#10. Some day soon I'm gonna get away from here.

Randolph Randy Camp

#11. The biggest cause of failure in software-intensive systems is not technical failure; it's building the wrong thing.

Mary Poppendieck