The World War II generation was a generation that contributed as much as or more to their country than any other during American history -- not just the war years but before and after.
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Sharing your experiences is what really makes open source such a valuable model. As long as people participate, the products grow and evolve. It's critical, especially when pursuing service-oriented architecture software development, to be responsible individuals. You can't take and not give something back. There's no free ride with open source.John McManus
With the possible exception of the atomic bomb project, the date and place of the Normandy invasion was the most heavily sought after piece of information in the world in 1944, ... The Americans at D-Day.
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If we stood up a new enterprise architecture governance board, I would have got a lot of IT geeks. People don't argue with things that he signed out.
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I respect the fact that some companies are seeing an opportunity to help those without domain expertise, while also opening up a revenue stream for themselves. But other companies are just looking for additional revenue streams, and that's unproductive. If you want to commercialize your software, you should make a clean break. Sometimes, it's difficult to separate the companies with the best intentions from those that are profit-driven and those whose intentions fall somewhere in the middle.
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During the run up over the past few years, the tendency has been to look at these companies as a synchronized sector, but that's all changing now. In the next 18 months, underneath all the rhetoric that good markets will offset deteriorating ones, nearly everyone expects there's going to be casualties among home builders of various sizes. The every-man-for-himself era among big residential construction companies has arrived.
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Richard Dooling
In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.
William Dampier
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
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