“When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
As quoted by Robert C. Martin in Software Development magazine (September 2005), p. 60
“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
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