A Quote by Richard E. Pattis

When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).

Richard E. Pattis

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Richard E. Pattis
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If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool of people working at the worst jobs and the lowest paid jobs. Once you have a system like that, then the most likely people to be victims of that are people of color.

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Paul Ryan

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James M. Buchanan

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Vitali Klitschko

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W. Edwards Deming

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Mike DeWine

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Michael Yates

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Roberto Azevedo

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Sonny Landham

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Susan Stebbing

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Malcolm X

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