It is remarkable how a calm descends on the project as the QA drop finally arrives and there is the realisation that adding any new features will just run up the bug count. Consequently test cases are cut down to the feature complete components and bug fixing occurs for the final four days. (more)
Janik and Toulmin's book Wittgenstein's Vienna deliberately ranges all over, it brings a whole host of intellectual threads together, arts, sciences, politics, journalism - from the pre-WWI period into an intimidating, but also rather heady and overpowering, mix. Though not the heart of the book, their concluding chapters are the easiest to quote. (more)
