Quotes About Development

We cannot achieve deployments on demand if every code deployment requires two weeks to set up our test environments and data sets, and another four weeks to manually execute all our regression tests. The countermeasure is to automate our tests so we can execute deployments safely and to parallelize them so the test rate can keep up with our code development rate.

now some of the best engineers in the company are working on making everyone else more productive. That's the way it should be, she thinks.

the developers will eventually be responsible for testing their own code, with QA taking a more strategic role, coaching and consulting.

These days, great teams doing consumer-oriented products have ratios of 1:6 because it's that important to create products that people love.

Instead of merely documenting the specifications of the production environment in a document or on a wiki page, we create a common build mechanism that creates all of our environments, such as for development, test, and production. By doing this, anyone can get production-like environments in minutes, without opening up a ticket, let alone having to wait week.s

Tuckman phases of teams, going through form, storm, norm, and perform. She's ready to start norming and performing!

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually.

Technologies from a prior era, once the focal point of innovation, now become the scaffolding upon which next-generation innovation will build.

Chasm crossing is not the end, but rather the beginning, of mainstream market development.

Ironically Britain claimed the whole continent simply in order to claim a few isolated harbours astride trade routes. It was like a speculator who, buying a huge wasteland flanking a highway because it had a few fine sites for road cafes and filling stations, found later that much of the land was fertile and productive.

Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

In developed countries, we have less to fear from infectious parasites, but much more to fear from infectious memes. So, instead of opening our bodies to ambient germs, we open our minds to ambient culture, to determine if we can stay sane throughout the onslaught.

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

The two dominant components that constitute a city, its physical infrastructure and its socioeconomic activity, can both be conceptualized as approximately self-similar fractal-like network structures.

So in marked contrast to infrastructure, which scales sublinearly with population size, socioeconomic quantities—the very essence of a city—scale superlinearly, thereby manifesting systematic increasing returns to scale.

In 2006 the planet crossed a remarkable historical threshold, with more than half of the world's population residing in urban centers, compared with just 15 percent a hundred years ago and still only 30 percent by 1950.

We can devolve to develop smaller, or even rural, communities that are just as plugged in as living in the heart of a great metropolis.

History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.

It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.