Posts Tagged: quotes


8
Jul 10

One Size Fits All Mission Statement (and other Quotes)

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron, director of Terminator and Titanic, from The New Yorker [via SvN]

“Designs take a leap forward when you kill the things you didn’t know you were holding on to.” – Ryan @ SvN

“I embrace change like I trust confidence.” @Rands

“1-size-fits-all mission stmnt: We provide best of breed productivity solutions that help maximize ROI for your strategic initiatives.” @jeffpatton

“In agile we plan and we plan to replan” – Ronica Roth [via @dwhelan]

“[When robots attack,] I don’t think you want to be known as a human being that is against computers.” — Peter Thiel [via @dcurtis]

“Flow is the New Center” – Leif Larson

“To understand good leadership, think about how far you’ll go when someone you like asks you for a favor.” @Rands

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill

“frustration is just passion being slowed down by a conversation” @alshalloway

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”  —Benjamin Franklin, 1755

The importance of a task is inversely proportional to the time you need to ignore it to render it moot. —Hugh Greenway

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

1 good test is worth a 1000 expert opinions–coined at Grumman Aerospace during 60s lumbar module dev pgm. [via @dwhelan]


29
May 10

Time Bombs

Ran across this quote recently, thought you might enjoy it:

“Don’t call your defects ‘bugs’. Call them ‘time bombs’ instead.”
- Watts S. Humphrey

From Wikipedia: “Watts S. Humphrey (born 1927) is an American software engineer, key thinker in the discipline of software engineering, and is often called the father of software quality.”

He has a recent book out that looks like it could be good, Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself.  Has anyone read it?

[via @jurgenappelo]

“Don’t call your defects ‘bugs’. Call them ‘time bombs’ instead.” – Watts S. Humphrey

25
May 10

Sleep Talking Man

Sleep Talking Man is a catalog of quotes that Adam says in his sleep. I thought this one was about right: ”Oh, this is a one man job. A very big man with six arms and enough ears for each one of your f***ing suggestions.”


31
Mar 10

All we now know

Imagination is more important than knowledge – for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.” — Albert Einstein


21
Nov 09

Quotes

“By knowing the past, experiencing the present, and embracing the future, we create ideas that make life better – We’re space150.”

“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” – Artemus Ward

“The beatings will continue until morale improves”

“Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.” – Jim Highsmith

“Instincts are your experience speaking without all that bothersome thinking.” – rands

“If monkey + typewriter + infinite time = Shakespeare, then I bet monkey + an IDE could get you MS Word in half the time.” – Jeff Patton

“pro tip: if people can glean what your presentation is about just by looking at your slides – you have a boring presentation.” – Garrick Van Buren

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi

The currency of today’s economy is knowledge. — President Obama (Education Speach, 11/2009)

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius

Projects fail at the beginning, not at the end. – Pat Reed