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“A day lost at the beginning of project hurts just as much as a day lost at the end.”

“While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static.”

“You can't control what you can't measure”

“It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.”

“People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.”

“The business of software building isn't really high-tech at all. It's most of all a business of talking to each other and writing things down. Those who were making major contributions to the field were more likely to be its best communicators than its best technicians.”

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"National Socialism did not make men unfree; unfreedom made men National Socialists."

— Milton Mayer

Education1908–1986

#freedom

"In regard to matter after critical matter – the Aryan-Dravidian divide, the nature of Islamic invasions, the nature of Islamic rule, the character of the freedom struggle – we find this trait – suppre…"

— Arun Shourie

Politics1941

#freedom

"She said to Constance, parodying a line of poetry that attracted her, "In the United States, there one feels free." But she spoiled it by continuing, "Except from the Americans — but every pearl has i…"

— Randall Jarrell

Literature1914–1965

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"A standing army, for instance, is incompatible with freedom; because subordination and rigour are the very sinews of military discipline; and despotism is necessary to give vigour to enterprise that o…"

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Philosophy1759–1797

#freedom