Quotes About Development

remember that generator functions simply return objects with methods that handle next operations run by for loops at each level, and don't produce any results until iterated; and

When people write software, they are not writing it for themselves. In fact, they are not even writing primarily for the computer. Rather, good programmers know that code is written for the next human being who has to read it in order to maintain or reuse it. If that person cannot understand the code, it's all but useless in a realistic development scenario.

In a sense, a module is like a single-instance class, without inheritance, which corresponds to an entire file of code.

Because using classes well requires some up-front planning, they tend to be of more interest to people who work in strategic mode (doing long-term product development) than to people who work in tactical mode (where time is in very short supply).

as this little function isn't needed elsewhere, it was written inline as a lambda.

give people a tool, and they'll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they'll code for a lifetime. This

Everywhere I went in Africa it was the same story. Foreign-funded NGOs, supported mainly by donors in Europe, were delaying or blocking the development not just of biotechnology but of modern agriculture generally across the continent.

In other words, we are losing the war on carbon precisely because we are winning the war on poverty.

It is ironic but nonetheless true that for developing countries the best way to protect against the future effects of climate change is currently to burn more fossil fuels and thereby accelerate their economic development.

In terms of our energy mix, therefore, and despite tablet computers, synthetic biology and Twitter, we are really only mid-way through the Industrial Revolution.

when leaders fail to thrive, the culprit is often their leadership character, not their lack of skills.

These are the Disciplines that can change everything!

Waikïkï is less Hawaiian than it is a bad mix of Las Vegas and Cancun.

the biggest driver of project success rates, it seems, is the clarity of strategic focus before any ideas are developed.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Comte's positivism and "stages of development" theory and the Hegel-Marx historicism are kindred and lay the foundation for modern progressivism. They all presume to know and establish the final stage of human development (even if the final stage is in a state of constant remaking), denounce organized religion and timeless truths, and worship the narcissism of their own moral nihilism

Running, in other words, removed an important constraint on our development as a species.

Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.

Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a book is built.

Every novel begins with one sentence. Then comes another. And another.

Every good story challenges the protagonist, and the reader.

Reading is the never-ending apprenticeship for writing ~ Mark Rubinstein

the ways in which the other deities found their way into the profile and character of Israel's god. So the place of the other deities is not simply alongside Israel's deity but within the god Yahweh as well as in differentiation and, at times, conflict with him. The development of a typology of convergence and differentiation