Quotes About Development

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

be released under an open source license.) The open source dictum, "release early and release often" in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, "the perpetual beta," in which the

John Gall wrote, "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over beginning with a working simple system.

product is the collective activity of all its users; like the web itself, eBay grows organically in response to user

Your son. From nought to five he is your master, from five to ten your servant, from ten to fifteen your secret counsellor, and after that, your friend - or your enemy.

One takes great pleasure in seeing children acquire skills one does not have, seeing them become, thankfully, different from oneself.

More than one person has claimed that the whole history of Italy as a nation-state could be reconstructed through an account of the country's railways.

He recommended that factories should 'as far as possible' be dispersed about the country instead of being concentrated in a few areas, both to avoid congestion, improve the earning power of the rural population and 'enlarge their horizon'.

He had detailed plans for developing industry, using hydro-electric power – 'the white coal of Ireland'.

He wanted to avoid both State socialism which he saw as merely another form of monopoly, and industrial development along 'the old commercial capitalistic lines of the huge joint stock companies':

the question of labour in relation to industry, and it is consequently vitally necessary for the development of our resources that the position of employers and employees should rest on the best possible foundation.

His development plans were all set in a united Ireland context. The rivers Erne and Bann lie in the Six Counties but in 1922 Collins was writing about methods which would,'utilise the water-power of the Shannon, the Erne, the Bann and the Liffey.

What you are to be, you are now becoming. —RUSSEL LESTER SNYDER, artist

You can't make things better until you stop me asking them worse.

What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Every year, improve your knowledge résumé through self-education. Otherwise, you'll have to claw, scratch, or repeat your way to semi-success in life.

The best general definition I have ever read is in the noted philosopher and writer Milton Mayeroff's 1972 book On Caring: "Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other." When you are able to help others grow to become the best people they can be, you are being loving—and you, too, grow.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Age is a scalpel, cutting out bits of what we are. Second after second. Day after day. Year after year

One of the biggest differences between leaders and followers is that leaders are learners.

Nations that had spent a thousand years under tyrants did not transform into free republics overnight because the United States wished them to do so. Elections alone did not a democracy make; they could bring strongmen to power and keep them there. Democracy, as it developed, could not be easily exported; it was not a commodity like soybeans or sneakers but an ideal that lived in the mind.

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do; rather, their value is in exposing a working model to more minds that might muse upon it and imagine a more evolved version. And