Quotes About Development

Grow me, I pray, into an emotionally mature adult through the Holy Spirit's power.

Is it any wonder that most people live off other people's spirituality rather than taking the time to develop their own direct experience of God? Most Christians talk about prayer but don't pray. Most believe the Bible as the Word of God but have little idea what it says. Our goals for our children differ little from those of "pagans" who do not known God. Like the world, we, too, grade people based on their education, wealth, beauty, and popularity.

Sadly, some of our misguided Christian beliefs and expectations have, as Thomas Merton wrote, "merely deadened our humanity, instead of setting it free to develop richly, in all its capacities, under the influence of grace.

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

Thus, disciplining ourselves to invest time, energy, and money in personal development is not a selfish indulgence, but one of the most loving things we offer to those we serve. Team

Jeg erkender hos den anden altså netop det som fascinerende, som i mig selv lige nu er modent for udvikling. Forbilledspejlingen med det elskede menneske vækker altså i rette øjeblik mit eget livspotentiel.

For individuals and small businesses, scenarios are a way to help develop their own gut feeling and assure that they have been comprehensive, both realistic and imaginative, in covering all the important bases.

But in the meantime there's no reason to starve the users for [syntactic] sugar. It doesn't rot their teeth and it helps them avoid mistakes. — Brendan Eich

On the fourth hand, one reason I don't like IDEs quite so much is that they can make it hard to know when you've actually seen everything. Walking around in a graph, it's hard to know you've touched all the parts. Whereas if you've got some linear order, it's guaranteed to take you through everything.

Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.

The most depressing thing about life as a programmer, I think, is if you're faced with a chunk of code that either someone else wrote or, worse still, you wrote yourself but you no longer dare to modify. That's depressing.

As your confidence in the API increases, then you flesh it out. But the fundamental rule is, write the code that uses the API before you write the code that implements it.

You don't get credit because the program works. We're going to the next level. Working programs are a given,

Seibel: Have you heard of refactoring? Cosell: No, what is that? Seibel: What you just described. I think now there's perhaps a bit more acceptance, even among the project managers of this idea.

Seibel: What are the techniques that you use there? Print statements? Armstrong: Print statements. The great gods of programming said, "Thou shalt put printf statements in your program at the point where you think it's gone wrong, recompile, and run it.

nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways to automatically analyze code, coming up with better ways for programmers to work together, or finding (or designing) better programming languages.

Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.

Play your first 100 games quickly" is an old proverb that stresses the relative unimportance of victory and defeat while you are learning how to play the game.

recognize the value of seeking out active users and showing them works in progress to develop opportunities and ideas and to see how they react.

just failing is not the key; the key is to be systematically learning from failures.

The problem with this approach was that product developers focused mostly on incrementally improving existing products, rather than coming up with new, potentially breakthrough, ideas.

The human being does not hop out of the magician's hat in the way that the ape climbs down from the tree; he also does not emerge from the hand of a creator who surveys everything in advance with his foreknowledge. He is the product of a production that is not itself a human being. The human being was not yet what he would become before he became it.

This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching idea: that it is the fate of Europeans to develop life and forms of life according to and alongside the Christian definitions of life and forms of life.

It takes at least 100 human generations for agricultural societies to develop into states