Quotes About Development

The trick is realize that the shit that falls on you is fertilizer. -Ron Mangravite

I seem to have been cross, somehow, all the time when I was a girl. I was horrid... You're supposed to grow out of horridness, aren't you? I don't think I ever grew out of mine. Sometimes I think it's still inside me, like something nasty I swallowed that got stuck.

Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today — but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

Dont write perfect code, write code that works

There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

History is a relay of revolutions.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Despite its philosophical shortcomings, ethical relativism does have appeal, particularly to the popular culture. The first appeal of relativism is based on the important idea that morality does not develop in a sociological vacuum.

the only reason anything good ships is because of the programmers. They are everything. They are not factory employees; they are craftspeople, craftspeople who are the fundamental creative engine of making software.

The future never enters the present as a finished product, but that doesn't stop people from expecting it to arrive that way.

Progress won't be a straight line but if you keep learning you will have more successes than failures, and the mistakes you make along the way will help you get to where you want to go.

Without change and the occasional struggle, we can't learn or grow.

If you lead an active intellectual and emotional life, your ideas will grow with you.

Taking responsibility, even for failures, is always a growth opportunity.

Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to go out the window is the notion of perfection.

Developing new ideas requires questions and approaches that most people won't understand initially, which leaves many true innovators at risk of becoming lonely, misunderstood characters.

I call this the challenge of indifference. As we grow up we're taught self-control, how to focus ourselves, and how to tune out things that are "wrong" or "juvenile" or "wastes of time." We become indifferent to the whims of the child mind, trading it in for suits and resumes—the tools of success in the adult world.

At the heart of the debate over how to overcome the challenges of shipping good things is an idea referenced in the title of Eric Raymond's book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.1 The book, which is about observations on making software, raises a central question that is relevant to all work: Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

Toni Schneider used the term continuous deployment to describe the philosophy of endless small changes.