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  What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?...
• while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery
  we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces....
• We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s.
  We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses....
• We make most of our mistakes when we are optimistic. -- Don Herold
• When we say something happened by chance, we really mean we don't know what caused it.
• When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. French Proverb
• Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. -- Don Gale
• It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
  -- Sir Winston Churchill...