Alistair Cockburn Quotes
Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'
Quotes to Explore
-
I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
-
The student will try to defy the master. Always.
-
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
-
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
-
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
-
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
-
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
-
I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
-
I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
-
Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
-
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
-
I will send a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable as Iran is currently envisioning it.
-
Iraq is an unjust war. I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
-
A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.
-
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
-
The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
-
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
-
I'll admit I'm a workaholic.
-
Hard times always lead to something great.
-
I love you exactly as you are.
-
It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.
-
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
-
Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'
