Quotes About Development

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you learn to do it well.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

The more you do, the more you can do.

Nor did the United States have a strategy for engagement, democratization, secular education, and economic development among the peaceful but demoralized majority populations of the Islamic world.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.

Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours.

Step 2 Mark off a square for the wall, I made mine 67 by 67 blocks.

Well, it's a start, but basically it stinks!

Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.

We develop more emotional maturity if we play more. We develop better decision-making ability if we play more.

Hey Trav, When I first got in this course, I didn't want a pervert teaching me. Now I don't mind. —Tony

In the last few years, making things more usable has become almost everybody's responsibility. Visual designers and developers now often find themselves doing things like interaction design (deciding what happens next when the user clicks, taps, or swipes) and information architecture (figuring out how everything should be organized). I

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

Be ambitious towards your own personal enhancement."

Change is the parent of progress."

Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing… changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant."

You are a reflection of nature. You should always be upgrading, refining, and improving."

You did not go through everything you've gone through just to end up in the same place you were when you started."

It's pain that changes our lives.

It's okay to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

the road to programming hell is paved with global variables

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?' Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.

Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software-development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find.