Yagni In Agile Quotes & Sayings

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something. — Bob Weir

People who choose to earn money first, people who put off their real plans until later, until they are rich, are not necessarily wrong. People who want only to live, and who reckon living is absolute freedom, the exclusive pursuit of happiness, the sole satisfaction of their desires and instincts, the immediate enjoyment of the boundless riches of the world [ ... ] such people will always be unhappy. It is true [ ... ] that there are people for whom this kind of dilemma does not arise, or hardly arises, either because they are too poor and have no requirements beyond a slightly better diet, slightly better housing, slightly less work, or because they are too rich, from the start, to understand the import or even the meaning of such a distinction. But nowadays and in our part of the world, more and more people are neither rich nor poor: they dream of wealth, and could become wealthy; and that is where their misfortunes begin."
-from "Things: A Story of the Sixties — Georges Perec

Give the people what they think they want. — George Ade

Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share. — Andy Garcia

The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry. — Mors Kochanski

As an Agile software development team, we'd been following the hallowed eXtreme Programming tenets, including YAGNI. That is, You Aren't Gonna Need It: a caution to not write unnecessary code - — Anonymous

I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are. — Eric Schmidt

Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want. — Jeffrey Fry