Quotes About Development

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

The slight edge can carve the Grand Canyon. It can do anything. But you have to give it enough time for the power of time to kick in. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you. Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death

Here's a slight edge action guaranteed to change your life: read just ten pages of a good book, a book aimed at improving your life, every day.

Successful people fail their way to the top.

Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge.

The greatest gift you could ever give yourself is also the wisest business investment you could ever make. It is also the most critical step in accomplishing any challenging task, and is the one step without which all other success strategies, no matter how brilliant or time-tested, are doomed to fail. What is this mysterious gift? It is your own personal development. Investing in your own improvement, your own personal growth and betterment, is all these things and more.

Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

Because time will either promote you or expose you.

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better. It's easy to do. But it's easy not to do, too.

I could not change my past but that I could rebuild a new future by taking just a small step every day in the right direction,

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." —Charles Reade

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

No success is immediate, no collapse is sudden. They are both the result of the slight edge accruing momentum over time.

The things that create success in the long run don't look like they're having any impact at all in the short run.

There's always more to build than we have time or resources to build — always.

I had to work hard to figure out the least I could build to make people happy.

The way you approach a big software cake is to break it down into lots of little cupcakes.

Slice out a release strategy. Remember: there's always too much to build.

The goal of using stories isn't to write better stories. The goal of product development isn't to make products.

scope doesn't creep; understanding grows. And

Stories are the building blocks of communication between developers and those who use their work. Story maps organize and structure these building blocks, and thus enhance this communication process — which is the most critical part of software development itself.

Interaction design is all about finding the user's truth and telling it as a narrative. Software development is all about breaking those narratives into tiny, functional chunks and implementing and integrating them.

Handing off all the details about the story to someone else to build doesn't work. Don't do that.