Quotes About Development

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Joyce ain't no exception. I suspect she got that job because she always had the right people in her corner and she was easy to train.

bonds of unity which could not be severed: A unity of race and language; a unity of historical development; a unity in religion; and the political unity created by the fact that all the thrones were filled by members of the same family,

The biggest cause of failure in software-intensive systems is not technical failure; it's building the wrong thing.

Suppose a developer has a conversation with a customer about details of a feature. The conversation should not be considered complete until it is expressed as a customer test.

It may seem like writing tests slows down development; in fact, testing does not cost, it pays, both during development and over the system's lifecycle.

we shouldn't add features until they are needed. Forget just in case; develop just in time.

the most successful development occurs when developers talk directly to customers or are part of business teams.

A Standish Group study found that 45 percent of features in a typical system are never used and 19 percent are rarely used.

true productivity has to be measured relative to the outcomes of the overall system, not just the software. Just producing a lot of lines of code or function points is irrelevant; the real question is, How much improvement in customer outcomes has the development team generated?

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

It is much more important to develop people with the expertise to make wise decisions than it is to develop decision-making processes that purportedly think for people. We are also convinced that it is quite possible to develop many people who are able to make wise intuitive decisions.

We determine scope at the beginning of system development, put a box around it, and figure out how long that scope will take to develop. This is the wrong approach.

A mature organization focuses on learning effectively and empowers the people who do the work to make decisions.

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

the maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.

We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that to some extent they are educating their parents. They are tackling issues of waste disposal and so on. The schools help, because they put a lot of stress on environmental awareness.

It almost seems un-American, at times, to have kids who are slow to warm up. Other people tell us to push them—to force them to jump in—and they reprimand us for babying them. When your child adapts slowly, remind yourself that you will appreciate it when he is an adolescent. While all the other kids are running off on some ridiculous impulsive venture, yours will be thinking, moving slowly and cautiously. There are strengths to every temperamental characteristic.

Family meals are also critical. Research consistently demonstrates that the family meal is a better indicator of academic achievement than participation in sports or the arts.

They are normal children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change than other children.

You will never kiss really well, Mr Darcy,' she said, 'unless you practise more. You cannot expect to excel if you do not practise a great deal.

The important and only vital question is, how much greater, finer, am I than I was yesterday? Have I fulfilled my possibilities, made the most of my potentialities. What a marvelous world if all would, could hold this attitude toward life.34