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Once a farmer and his friend were sitting at a battered kitchen table. The farmer said, “It's time for the mule's lesson.” Out they went into the yard. The farmer picked up a thick tree branch lying on the ground. He walked up to the mule and hit it over the head so hard the branch shattered. The mule staggered. His friend's jaw dropped. The friend said, “You can't teach a mule a lesson like that.” “That wasn't the lesson,” replied the farmer, “that was just to get his attention.”
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Beck, K. (1998). Extreme programming: A humanistic discipline of software development. In: Astesiano, E. (eds) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053579
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