Mads B. Westmark and Jesper Rønn-Jensen have some great quotes for the agile project wall. The quote below is what Jesper likes best:

“Small agile teams where we can show and tell - make working software and prototypes very fast in close collaboration with clients.”

And here are some other interesting quotes:

“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it”

– Alan Perlis –
(American computer scientist, inventor of ALGOL)

“Expansion means complexity and complexity decay”

– C. Northcote Parkinson –
(British historian and author)

“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before”

– Franz Kafka –

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability”

– Edsger Dijkstra –
(Dutch mathematician, inventor of Shortest Path First Algorithm)

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity”

– Dennis Ritchie –
(Inventor of C and and Unix core developer)

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough”

– Charles Dudley Warner –
(American essayist and novelist)

“The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity”

– Bill Gates –

(Inventor of DOS and Windows, in case you haven’t known him yet )

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

– Leonardo da Vinci –

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”

– Confucius –

“Project success is not product success”

– Jeff Patton, Agile Alliance –

“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it”

– Alan Perlis –
(American computer scientist, inventor of ALGOL)

“At a certain point, waterfall project development models force us to stop becoming smarter”

– Jesper Rønn-Jensen –
(Capgemini Ruby on Rails pioneer)

“Enterprise? - A colossal spaceship from the 80’s flown by people with bad taste: Highly advanced, but purely fictional”

– Mads Buus Westmark –
(Capgemini Ruby on Rails pioneer)

“Agile consultants: pricey, but not enterpricey”

– Mads Buus Westmark –
(Capgemini Ruby on Rails pioneer)

Above all, I like Franz Kafka’s saying. What is the quote(s) of yours?

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