A Quote by Geoffrey Moore

Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.

Geoffrey Moore

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Back Charged Corporate Effectiveness Efficiency Generally Increasing Mechanisms Mistake Never Operating Overhead Programs Should Simply Systems Units User Users

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Geoffrey Moore
American - Manager
July 31, 1946 - 1999

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Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded - How does that help anyone?

Gina Raimondo

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

Bill Gates

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Neil Young

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Ron Paul

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Harlan Mills

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Kevin Mitnick

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Chris Hedges

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Roy Spencer

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