“The Third Law of Consulting: Never forget they're paying you by the hour, not by the solution.”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

Citation in: Lowell Jay Arthur (1992) Rapid evolutionary development: requirements, prototyping & software creation. p. 9
The secrets of consulting, 1985

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American computer scientist 1933–2018

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