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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[โ€“] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 103 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It takes a woman nine months to make a baby, nine women cannot make a baby in a month.

Classic (and likely mangled by myself) computer science quote which I always enjoy encountering in the wild!

[โ€“] someguy3@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Classic project management quote.

[โ€“] bob@lemmy.havocperil.uk 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's from "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks. It was published in 1975. I've seen people make the same project management mistakes that the book discussed for the last 30 years.

[โ€“] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Sorry to break it to you, but that's almost 50 years.

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