Quotes About Development

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development at leading-edge software organizations, like JavaSoft, Microsoft, and Netscape. He called to chat with a

The transformation of America that took place during the post-World War II period really began a decade earlier, with the completion of Hoover Dam. The story of America in the last half of the twentieth century is the story not of the postwar era, but the post-dam era.

I had spent my life in the river bottoms and Boulder meant a wonderful climax," Crowe recalled in 1943. "I was wild to build this dam." So, too, were the founders of Six Companies, Inc., the unwieldy contracting consortium assembled in 1931 to make a bid on the dam project.

The governing principle of PARC was that the place existed to give their employer that ten-year head start on the future. They even contrived a shorthand phrase to explain the concept. The Alto, they said, was a time machine. Thacker

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Shook and Verble, Managing to Learn.

In the lean world," he grinned, "if the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." "And what if I train them and then they leave?" "What if you don't and they stay?" he replied.

George Bernard Shaw made the point best: 'The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him … The unreasonable man adapts the surrounding conditions to himself … All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

In many ways, we are the city that the New Deal built. Because that's who built all of our infrastructure. Before that, we were a hardscrabble town.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country.

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

we know that population growth does not just magically spawn productivity. Building factories and stocking them full of people does not mystically produce either raw materials or good ideas.

There are more people now with wireless connections than with flush toilets, according to the United Nations (2013).

To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.

Remember, code is your house, and you have to live in it.

As the amount of code in a project grows, it gradually surpasses understanding. The amount of time it takes to figure out what to change just keeps increasing.

How do I test private methods?" Many people spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get around this problem, but, as I mentioned in an earlier chapter, the real answer is that if you have the urge to test a private method, the method shouldn't be private; if making the method public bothers you, chances are, it is because it is part of a separate responsibility. It should be on another class.

The most subtle bugs that we can inject are bugs related to inheritance.

we can't let "best" be the enemy of "better.

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.