Internal Customers Quotes & Sayings

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers. — Steven Sinofsky

There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order. — Hugh Kingsmill

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process. — Isaac Asimov

It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil. — David Josiah Brewer

The State has a legal monopoly on the right to use aggression against others in the form of taxation and compulsory edicts (legislation). Not only must "customers" pay into its operation without regard to their consent, but they must surrender to the rules its internal processes determine at all times. Additionally, the State has a monopoly on the provision of security, and has anointed itself as the ultimate arbiter in all conflicts, including those conflicts which involve its own agents. It — Christopher Chase Rachels

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. — Thomas Kuhn

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men; ... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. — Arthur Schopenhauer

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story. — Jeffery Deaver

Doing testing with real users (in addition to internal quality testing) can help you avoid the serious embarrassment of a failed product. — Brian Lawley

Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker. — Tom DeLay

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images ... that sink into countless strata in my mind. — Daido Moriyama

Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul — Sri Aurobindo

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom. — David Dark

It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old. — Ryan Seacrest

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change. — Prince William