Quotes About Development

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Le pire aspect matériel, et surtout moral, de la société néo-industrielle, ce n'est pas le travail, mais l'industrie lourde du loisir. Une dés-organisation des loisirs permettrait entre autres de sortir de l'impasse d'un développement touristique qui çà et là tourne au pandémonium. En effet, si les gens trouvaient chez eux ce qu'ils cherchent en vain toujours plus loin, une bonne partie d'entre eux ne cèderaient pas à la panique estivale.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

For fifteen years, the Fabers had nurtured the hope that Leslie could overcome her disabilities, but the new evaluation suggested that her development would be limited and that she would require some form of supervision for the rest of her life.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

We have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live after that.

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

Il faut toujours remercier ses ennemis. Sans eux, tu n'évoluerais pas.

If the apple of the next generation could fall farther from the tree, and get less shade from its parent, then the new tree might grow taller and healthier.

The United States invests just 2.4 percent of GDP in infrastructure; whereas, Europe invests twice that amount.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

First the grub, then the morals.

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate.

Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.

So wie es ist, bleibt es nicht.

The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's if you want to teach them to think.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.