Quotes About Development

food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel.

As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them above "barbarians" or "savages.

Different peoples acquired food production at different times in prehistory.

Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the peoples of different continents became farmers and herders explains to a large extent their subsequent contrasting fates.

For instance, today almost all Japanese and Scandinavians are literate but most Iraqis are not: why did writing nevertheless arise nearly four thousand years earlier in Iraq?

Those nations are Finland, Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Germany, Australia, and the United States.

averaged over many cases, leadership does tend to affect economic growth.

Based on such evidence, archaeologists infer that chiefdoms began to arise locally by around 5500 BC.

If you build software, every error message is marketing

Behind Closed Doors 1, a fantastic book about management from Esther Derby and Johanna Rothman.

No one who is learning should ever feel stupid

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Stay close, do what I say and make as many mistakes as you want – just never the same one twice.

We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.

If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

better idea would be to keep the same number of staff you have now and invest in high upside-leverage "performance enhancement" training, which would result in those same employees becoming as much as 50 to 100 percent more effective.

Knowledge is the currency of the twenty-first century.

If you've decided to market online, the first rule of which you should be aware is the rule of thirds: You should determine the budget you'll have for online marketing, then invest one third in developing your site, one third in promoting your site, and one third in maintaining your site. Most ill-advised online marketers invest three thirds in developing their site, then wonder why they aren't earning landmark profits.

Maturation is fundamentally the process of learning to discipline one's self and to carry personal responsibility.

Christians never should fear change. They must believe in change so long as the change is oriented toward godliness. The Christian life is a life of continual change. In the Scriptures it is called a "walk," not a rest. They never may say (in this life), "I have finally made it." They must not think, "There is nothing more to learn from God's Word, nothing more to put into practice tomorrow, no more skills to develop, no more sins to be dealt with.

I don't like test names. Technically they're method names, but they're never called explicitly.

Within a single test, DRY can often apply.