Elie Wiesel Quotes
First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
Wiesel, Elie. Against Silence: The Voice and Vision of Elie Wiesel. Edited by Irving Abrahamson, Holocaust Library, 1985.
He was referring to projects like the ObamaCare website. This was then only the most recent failure of a major IT government project. The IRS has for years been unsuccessful and developing a system for tax filing. And the Defense Department tried to develop a standardized programming language—ADA—that failed miserably despite all the pressure the government put on companies. Microsoft and Google rarely meet their own internal deadlines for development of a major innovative product, and that is typical as there is risk in many parts of a system and further risk as to whether they work together, and then whether they work with heavy use, etc.
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
