Quotes About Development

You don't need to improve your performance every time you train—this becomes impossible as you get more advanced—but your sessions should display a general line of progression through the months and years, or you've just been spinning your wheels.

In the words of human rights scholar Max Stackhouse, "Intellectual honesty demands recognition of the fact that what passes as 'secular,' 'Western' principles of basic human rights developed nowhere else than out of key strands of the biblically-rooted religion."9

Having multiple early losses and traumas that weren't adequately addressed at the time they happened can affect your brain development and make your nervous system more easily overwhelmed by emotions later in life.

Childhood is built on bad decision-making.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel.

learn to program by looking at good programs — not just at what they do, but at the source code.

Building something by gradually refining a prototype is good for morale because it keeps you engaged.

Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.

If you can't find ten Lisp hackers, then your company is probably based in the wrong city for developing software

Live in the future, then build what's missing.

If you look at the dominant technologies today, you'll find that most of them grew organically.

it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich.

To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. You need the young hacker's naive faith in his abilities, and at the same time the veteran's skepticism.

What is technology? It's technique. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it.

If you look at history, it seems that most people who got rich by creating wealth did it by developing new technology. You just can't fry eggs or cut hair fast enough.

What made the Florentines rich in 1200 was the discovery of new techniques for making the high-tech product of the time, fine woven cloth. What made the Dutch rich in 1600 was the discovery of shipbuilding and navigation techniques that enabled them to dominate the seas of the Far East.

Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.

The problem with working slowly is not just that technical innovation happens slowly. It's that it tends not to happen at all. It's only when you're deliberately looking for hard problems, as a way to use speed to the greatest advantage, that you take on this kind of project. Developing new technology is a pain in the ass. It is, as Edison said, one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Without the incentive of wealth, no one wants to do it.

To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. You need the young hacker's naive faith in his abilities, and at the same time the veteran's skepticism. You have to be able to think how hard can it be? with one half of your brain while thinking it will never work with the other.

The way ro really do big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

To put this in international perspective, Mississippi now is about as poor relative to the coastal states as Sicily is relative to northern Italy.

Le depressioni, l'inflazione galoppante o la guerra civile possono rendere un paese povero, ma solo l'aumento di produttività può renderlo ricco.