Quotes About Development

The issue is not whether people are "good enough" for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

When you catch bugs early, you also get fewer compound bugs. Compound bugs are two separate bugs that interact: you trip going downstairs, and when you reach for the handrail it comes off in your hand.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.

If a complete free market seemed efficacious in principle, in practice it had not delivered the basic services necessary for a country to call itself civilised.

usually little response until two or three treatments

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Girls' education, it turns out, has a dramatic bearing on global warming. Women with more years of education have fewer, healthier children and actively manage their reproductive health.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Becoming is superior to being.

The Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's….ten years from now, the phrase "information economy" will sound silly. (1997)

The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able to relate to and engage with the extremely powerful and archetypal forces (both dark and light) of the unconscious. If we don't have a strongly developed sense of self (even though it is not, ultimately speaking, the true self), we will get overwhelmed and taken over by the powers of the unconscious such that we will compulsively act them out.

Education is a place where we ask, 'Did you get the answers right?' as opposed to, 'What did you learn?

Mentorship lead to greatness in others!

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

you have chosen the person most able to help you grow in emotional maturity.

To accomplish this, we practice and develop skill in interpersonal communications.

for the next major development in A.A.—the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.2

I repeatedly tell him that if he wants to feel differently, he has to act differently. He must change his behavior, not hers. I tell him if he changes drastically enough and long enough, she will very likely change. She may temporarily get worse before she gets better, but she will change.