Tuesday, August 28, 2007

A legislator's quandary

Speed is easy to measure, good driving isn't.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Laptops and their owners

After a while a laptop starts to look like its owner.

Yesterday's weather

Tomorrow's weather will be the same as today's weather 70% of the time. This translates wonderfully to projects: if your project is in the shit today, it's unlikely that everything will be hunky-dory tomorrow.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Cause and effect

An organisation does not get what it wants; it only gets what it rewards.

(Free after a Belgian professor)

Monday, July 23, 2007

Questions & Answers

There's no such thing as a stupid question. However, there's a ready supply of stupid answers.

Incompetence

"When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do."

Courtesy of ThinkGeek.com

Risk-logs and Issue-logs

A Hurray-log contributes more to a project's success than a Risk-log or an Issue-log.