Quotes About Development

In sum, the empirical status of the father-absent hypothesis is mixed and points to the possibility of gene x environment interactions in predicting the effects of father absence on female sexual development.

People change in some ways as they grow; in other ways they don't.

Cain wonders for the first time, whether a child is born with the man already inside him waiting to emerge; or if there is only blankness, a void inside ready to be filled with whatever might be placed there.

Mankind can be wiped off the face of the earth by the action of any comparatively small group of people. So it would seem that if we care to survive we must progress in our social and economic development far more rapidly than we have done in the past."28

the Temple's destruction did not end a Jewish presence in Palestine, neither did it create the Jewish diaspora. Communities had been developing outside of the land of Israel for centuries, especially in the Middle

Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient.

Did I pick the right person? This question inverts the starting and ending points. We do not pick our perfect match because we ourselves are not perfect. The universe hands us a flawless diamond—in the rough. Only if we are willing to polish off every part of ourselves that cannot join do we end up with a soul mate.

Nobody's Ready for Marriage—Marriage Makes You Ready for Marriage

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

weeks passed, my suitcase grew more and more conventional. "I've got something for you," I'd say to a teenager. "It's nothing huge

The fetus was minute - a congregation of loitering cells - and as with anything that informal, there was a good chance that it might disperse.

There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten.

When young, the animals were sweet. Then one day they became moody and violent, like human teenagers

But he didn't used to be this nice and agreeable, I complained to Hugh. Well, he is now, he said. Why can't you let people change?

we all make mistakes, but if you don't learn quickly enough, you'll not survive in this sport.

as soon as anything even remotely one percent promising starts to happen, you really jump on it with great enthusiasm and build on it quickly.

Augustus" (from the verb augeo "to make to grow or to increase")

Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.

We find that often the only way to determine the timetable for a project is by gaining experience on that same project. This needn't be a paradox if you practice incremental development, repeating the following steps with very thin slices of functionality: Check requirements Analyze risk (and prioritize riskiest items earlier) Design, implement, integrate Validate with the users

This book will help you become a better programmer.

But that ignores the fact that tests are also a way of communicating with other developers, so I now do write tests on code shared with others or that relies on the peculiarities of external dependencies.

Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age

all ensigns should be pruned back occasionally. It served them in good stead later.

Although there can be fast improvements all over a book, it won't gel into a single cohesive life right away. Keep going, keep faith, because it can follow the reductive dynamic of a slow meat stock. You boil it down for fifty hours, and, sure, it distils mathematically, you can see it reducing and growing richer hour by hour. But flavour and texture don't gel until the last ten minutes. Always simmer your work until then.