Quotes About Development

We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

Debugging: what an odd word. As if bugging were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.

I've managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant humility.

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

The key to surviving and thriving in leadership often rests in increasing our self-awareness.

When disciplined, however, the individual is given consequences that help shape him or her for future success.

Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic." This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no

My contention is that while progress in some of the great matters of human concern has been long proceeding in accordance with the law of a rapidly increasing geometric progression, progress in the other matters of no less importance has advanced only at the rate of an arithmetical progression or at best at the rate of some geometric progression of relatively slow growth. To see it and to understand it we have to pay the small price of a little observation and a little meditation.

Early ideas are not necessarily true ideas.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

the major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

In some measure or other, progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious.

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur :—like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.

Whether they will or no, Americans must begin to look outward.

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.