The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.

Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.

Agile is more a “direction, ” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.

Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.

Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.

You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.

Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.

I have always seen talented person being ignored.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.