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Nico, it's me !
Quote
- The user is always right, you just need to agree on the formulation
- A small improvement multiplied by a large amount can make a difference Richard Foote …
- What say developers / users ? (Tom Kyte)
- Developers : it works, but it's slow
- Users : it does not work, because it's slow
- Bewondering moet ook een rol hebben gespeeld. Hij behaalde geen meerderheid, maar hij kreeg wel iedereen mee. Hans Keilson.
- “One of the best ways to learn is by helping others,” says Alvarez.
- “When someone has a problem on an OTN [Oracle Technology Network] forum, I enjoy trying to assist them with it. I've learned a lot by trying to help other Oracle users to solve their problems.” From Congrats to the Oracle ACE Director of the Year...
- It is NEVER about application consolidation, it is ALWAYS about business process simplication. Andy Kyte
- Dromen brengen werk met zich mee. Paolo Coehlo (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness)
- If you give a manager a numerical target, he'll make it even if he has to destroy the company in the process. Deming
- A bad system will defeat a good person every time. Deming
- For the past 40 years, for example, we’ve tortured ourselves over our inability to finish a software project on time and on budget. But as I hinted earlier, this never should have been the supreme goal. The more important goal is transformation, creating software that changes the world or that transforms a company or how it does business. Tom DeMarco - An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
- Software development is and always will be somewhat experimental. The actual software construction isn’t necessarily experimental, but its conception is. And this is where our focus ought to be. It’s where our focus always ought to have been. Tom DeMarco - An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
- Even under the best programs, users will forget 70 percent of what they’ve learned within two weeks and 87 percent within one month. Oracle User Productivity Kit
- “What is measured improves” Peter F. Ducker.
- Albert Einstein said: “Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted counts.”
What I like
My wife, my two daughters and …
- To meet new people and discover several trades.
- To learn and learn and …
- To offer a real business intelligence system that the users want and use over the years (preferably minimum 10)
- To share my knowledge
- To struggle kindly on technical points of views as well as functional.
- The curious people who like to know why.
