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There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#enough #get #going #inspired #just

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#capable #cunning #doing #few #generous

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#objection #refuge #scoundrel #technical

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas. ↗

— Chris Brown

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Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #time #experience

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#being #black #father #friends #getting

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #homeland #our #protecting #task

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#every #had #i #place #sang

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

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