#gin

When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#engineering #hacker #i #i do #might

Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land - all things born of the soul that can only be felt. ↗

— Anthony De Sa

#longing #soul #life

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#children #two-years-old #age

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#feminism #radicals #women #age

The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here ↗

— Jon Scieszka

#age

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. ↗

— Paul de Man

#came #could #departure #desire #earlier

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. ↗

— David Sedaris

#change

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up. ↗

— Shaun White

#cartoons #grow #grow up #hanging #i