Ken Schwaber quotes

  • Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.
    -- Ken Schwaber

    #Mother #Law #Faults

  • A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.
    -- Ken Schwaber

    #Organization #People #Giving

  • I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it.
    -- Ken Schwaber

    #Organization #Benefits #Succeed

  • Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

  • I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

  • Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

  • What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

  • Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

  • There is no justice in following unjust laws.

  • The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

  • My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

  • Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

  • Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

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