“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.” – Fred Brooks
These Electric Feelings
by Michael Doyle
It is once, maybe twice
Your head starts reeling
It's easy to pay the price
Getting lost in these electric feelings
You know you've found the right one
And that the search is finally done
It's not like you'll evade the snares
But you cannot be anything but fair
Everyone has their pick
They might reach it quick
Or they might reach it slow
But in the end, we all know
The words come like a chokehold
Of that something special told
It's a feeling you must keep going on
And your pulse rate is beating strong
All the emotions fall into right place
Somewhere between my leather and your lace
It's that vital point where we start to melt
Giving in to the feelings that are already felt
It's that semi-cryptic point of empathy
Knowing that not everyone will necessarily be happy
But it's not about living for the sympathy
It's more the need to know that you really feel me
Here in this modernistic age
Life is a flash that turns its page
It moves at an artificially fast pace
And all we can hope for is our best end of race
Listening to each other's hearts talking
Watching ourselves as if feelings walking
Doing the best that we are capable
To make peace at feeling a bit inter-changeable
At least, that is, to a certain degree
Refusing the chains but loving for free
Until we are unable to get enough of one another
Are we ready, babe, to truly love each other?
(c) April 18, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson (1790)
Worth the Turning of Attention
by Michael Doyle
The time has come and the time is now
To remember the nation's virtues somehow
Because when the Left has gotten out of control
There is virtually nothing to ever console
The loss of some fundamental beliefs
That without which we are stuck in grief
As our bleeding hearts become tyrannical
The path they weave becomes quite maniacal
There is no good in the dumbing down of society
To make someone lesser ease their social anxiety
In no way makes our world any more equitable
We should lend ourselves to rewarding the capable
How is it that we have been argued into duplicity?
Has the Left truly forgotten that to protect liberty
We must always protect the others' freedoms
Instead of turning the nation into a fiefdom
Where instead of seeking the leadership of the meritorious
We stumble as we crumble into skin tone being victorious
And what good is there in punishing all dishonesty?
When doing so interferes with the business of society
Handing our best chances over to illegal residents
Like anyone in this land could be made our president
Is something that our parents could not have conceived it
Someone pulled the puppet's strings and then believed it
As something desirable, and though life in its levity
Deserves moments that recognize its certain brevity
We should not desert what were the principles of this land
To be led by the post-Marxism of Frankfurt's command
Nothing is as loved by tyrants as blind obedience
But that doesn't make our nation become resplendent
We have become believers in outrageous blasphemy
And in doing this, we are trading in decent authority
Giving away consent of the governed for rule by agency
In a manner that is Marxian in its spoiled precedency
If we keep this path of the despised and the damned
In the end, we are to blame for allowing to be rammed
From our pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness
To the theft of all private property to chase bliss
That cannot be found by being duped in our naivety
Into trading our natural liberty for allegiance to authority
(c) April 18, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.” – Clarence Darrow
Beautifully Amazed
by Michael Doyle
We paint a life seen together
Certain that our blessings are better
As we talk into the night
Before we know it, it's the morning light
Learning things of complexity
As we break it down into simplicity
Life can be overly demanding
But it comes down to our understanding
We talk about new traditions
We will make it into our rendition
Of our dreams spoken aloud
And my vision of you simply astounds
As we have shared our words together
And kept our spaces safe and better
All the moments that we quietly share
These are the moments that show we care
All these quiet moments looking into your eyes
Are the special moments that make me realize
That your ways will always be the best plays
And that you make me beautifully amazed
(c) April 17, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Let Each Citizen Remember At the Moment He Is Offering His Vote…That He Is Executing One of the Most Solemn Trusts In Human Society For Which He Is Accountable To God and His Country
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote … that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” – Samuel Adams (1781)
Thought For the Day: You Can’t Change the Past, But You Can Ruin the Present By Worrying About the Future
“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”– Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (17 Apr 1885-1962)
From the Shadows, Grows the Light
by Michael Doyle
Emerging from the shadows,
There is one thing that I know
God keeps promises despite disruption
He'll bring an end to all corruption
This is the path for all eternity
The house of the worthy worships His deity
With hearts devoted to right intention
We give all that's holy our right attention
Our hearts are full with the holy flame
That burns forever in His blessed name
Everything is done in His good vision
We trust our lives within that vision
Everything that is, is said and done
With the power of God's only Son
Everything will turn out wonderful
Because everything is His made beautiful
(c) April 16, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924)
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