Quotes About Development

You probably learned from your failures more than from success.

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A prelingual hearing loss occurs prior to the development of speech and language while a postlingual impairment refers to a hearing loss manifesting itself after the acquisition of speech and language.

A plant has been defined as a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface all that it needs for growth. Through

We cannot easily add lanes to roads, but we've learned how to easily add features to software. This isn't a defect of our software processes, but a virtue of the medium in which we work.

Most projects are built by people, and those people are the foundation for success and failure. So, it pays to think about what it takes to help make those people successful.

As a developer you rarely get the time to sit back and really look at how the whole system fits together. As an architect, this is your main focus. While developers are furiously building classes, methods, tests, user interfaces and databases, you should be making sure that all those pieces work well together.

Remember that application development is not a beauty contest, so stop looking for flaws and wasting time chasing perfection.

Your vision of both macro and micro levels will be greatly enhanced by the time you spend in the belly of the beast bringing it to life.

Software development is fundamentally a design activity, in that it involves an ongoing process of decision making until the developed system goes into production.

The long-term interests of the software development team are best served when business drives.

We know that infant rats who receive more licking and grooming from their mothers are less fearful and more intelligent as adults, have better immune systems, and are more attentive mothers themselves.

Science knows now that our brain does not simply store our experiences. Each experience changes the brain, structurally, electrically, chemically. The brain becomes the experience. If we are careful about the experiences we give our brains, we can change the brain itself.

The problem with traditional approaches to abstraction and encapsulation is that they aim at complete information hiding. This characteristic anticipates being able to eliminate programming from parts of the software development process, those parts contained within module boundaries. As we've seen, though, the need to program is never eliminated because customization, modification, and maintenance are always required-that is, piecemeal growth.

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

L'électricité est réellement le sang de la civilisation.

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.