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"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you."

"You never know when you start a project just how good it can be."

"I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style."

"I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned."

"No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project."

"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
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"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."

"Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced."

"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."
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