| Meeting(s) - The antonym of productivity. |
| Deadline - Refer to "Marathon Coding." |
| Marathon Coding - Refer to "Deadline." |
| Singleton - A "global variable" without all of the negative press. |
| Store and Forward - An information delivery architecture modeled after the human digestive system. |
| No - A word rarely heard in the Marketing and Business units. However, judicious use of this word by the Engineering unit actually causes milestones to be achieved and on schedule. |
| Multitasking - A methodology highly regarded and touted by management and guaranteed to increase your percentage of unfinished tasks by at least 500 percent. |
| Disaster Recovery Planning - A project task that is normally begun roughly five minutes after the first system crash and data loss on a final production release. |
| Stakeholder - One or more persons connected with a systems project and have expert knowledge of both Microsoft Project and stopwatches. |
"It's all just one big test to see how much you can take before you snap!" -- My friend Jeff |
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein |
"With regard to managing people, Bob didn't believe in burning out developers and he thought there was a lot of life to be had outside of the office. I'm pleased to learn that he was active to the end. I'll never forget him." -- Dennis Hamilton |
| * Meetings cause meetings. |
| * Software has nothing to do with computer science and everything to do with politics. |