Three Quotes that Could Have Come From IT Professionals…But Didn’t

Would you accept these excuses from an IT manager?

1. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” ― Marilyn Monroe

I heard this one from a Web programmer last year

2. “All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.” ― John F. Kennedy

Talk about scope creep. Can we go over the project charter again?

3. “We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.”― Bill Vaughan

Yes, but about that target date…