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Failures provide a template in the mind of a project manager. If you've lived through a major failure, then when you hear certain phrases or see things that happened previously, you instantly become more alert and start asking more questions.
-- Ken Orr, "When Dr Kevorkian makes a house call" (Cutter IT Journal 03/2004)