"Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will,…" — Fred Brooks

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• Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. — Thomas A. Edison
• Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of… — Martin Fleischmann
• Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in… — Unknown Author
• The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have. — Russell Brand
• Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any… — Eric S. Raymond
• Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation… — Philip Greenspun
• Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo. — Theodore Levitt
• Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in… — Teresa Amabile
• The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation.… — Ayn Rand
• We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with… — Lionel Jospin
• Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around. — Aaron Levie
• Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans. — Guy Kawasaki

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