“How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.”
Fred Brooks (1931) American computer scientist
Page 153 (italics and ellipsis in source).
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)
“How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.”
"I Am a Cabaret" (1972), p. 203
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
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English-American novelist and essayist 1930–2011Related quotes
“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Quoted as Sandburg in Stop Whining! Start Selling!: Profit-Producing Strategies for Explosive Sales Results (2003) by Jeff Blackman, but without citation of original source; this is elsewhere attributed to Antoine de Saint Exupéry, but also with no original sources cited.
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Conan O'Brien (1963) American television show host and comedian
January 22, 2010 Monologue Variety, 23 Jan 2010 http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ <br class="br">The Tonight Show
“You can still make today the day you change yourself. It's never too late!”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 148
Carole King (1942) Nasa
Though King wrote the music for "It's Too Late", the lyrics were entirely written by Toni Stern.
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“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variant: You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
