Firedance Quotes & Sayings

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff. — Drew Gooden

Today financial capitalism is fraught with special interests, corporate monopolies, and an opacity that would have boggled Smith's mind. Let me be clear: despite my criticism of our existing model of financial capitalism, this book isn't anticapitalist. I am not in favor of a planned economy or a turn away from a market system. I simply don't think that the system we have now is a properly functioning market system. — Rana Foroohar

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do. — Jamie Farr

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them. — Max Anders

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. — Louise Doughty

Good writing is like a windowpane. — George Orwell

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too. — Busta Rhymes

Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners. — Michael S. Horton

By the time she'd run to the edge of the crater, Bazine's mentor and once-friend was climbing over the edge, bruised and scratched up but mostly unharmed. — Delilah S. Dawson

The world is yours. Occupy it sacred space. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path. — Echo Bodine

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. — Simone Weil

It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. — Isabella L. Bird

Worse yet is the rejection of upfront requirements. The basic observation is correct: requirements will change, and are hard anyway to capture at the beginning. In no way, however, does it imply the dramatic conclusion that upfront requirements are useless! What it does imply is that requirements should be subject to change, like all other artifacts on the software process.

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The agile advice here is irresponsible and serious software projects should ignore it.The sound practice is to start collecting requirements at the beginning, produce a provisional version prior to engaging in design, and treat the requirements as a living product that undergoes constant adaptation throughout the project. — Bertrand Meyer