If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who … - Tom DeMarco

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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Tom DeMarco

If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there. "

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Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

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Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

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The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

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