John McManus Quotes (10 Quotes)


    We're seeing a real threat to journalism as a middle-class occupation and to the quality of news that we still need as citizens, ... all in the name of boosting share price for a limited number of investors.

    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.

    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.

    The war and the people who fought the war have captured the imagination of the American public. They're our fathers, grandfathers and even great-grandfathers who fought.

    Open source is not free. You may not have to pay for the code, but it doesn't free you from having to exercise your brain and do whatever integration is required. If you don't think about maintenance, operation and integration costs, you may put zero dollars in your budget for an open-source project and then wonder why you're eating through money so quickly.


    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.

    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.

    It's dangerous to put that much power in the hands of one company.

    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.

    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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