Quotes About Development

When there is a healthy system for recognizing, responding to, and learning from mistakes, over time fewer of them tend to happen

Urgent problems were assigned to the developer with the least on his plate, but as these issues accumulated, I worried we'd spend more time doing maintenance than new work. All services require maintenance, but when you spend more time maintaining than growing, something is wrong.

Though it was a horrible experience, it was ultimately a personal and professional breakthrough for me.

Just remember it's not the experience that matters—it's what you do with the experience. Nothing

And the top performers know this, so they make learning a practice.

Physics becomes chemistry, chemistry becomes biology, biology becomes psychology, and so on. Or, put another way: cells emerge from the interactions of atoms, organs emerge from the interactions of cells, and societies emerge from the interactions of people. Each level of emergence produces higher order functionalities.

If the United States had been smart about protecting wetlands as its cities developed, we'd be saving hundreds of lives and many billions of dollars in flood insurance and flood-induced repair bills every year

Man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

Instead of being smothered by your failures, debilitated by them, defeated by them, if you can learn from them, you have a superpower. True winners have a healthy appetite for failure. Because without failure, success means nothing.

Failure is not something to be feared but something to be cherished because it is always teaching us.

It's not about where you are today; it's about where you're going to be. We have to remind ourselves: This is where I am, but it is not where I'm always going to be.

It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.

The reason men have nipples is because all embryos start off as females in the womb.

Get the best people and train them well.

Second General Rule of Thumb on Self Promotion Make your next book a better book.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new. And then, of course, there is a corollary: The only software that's worth making is software that does something new.

People write programs. That statement is worth pausing over. People write programs. Despite the field's infatuation with metaphors like architecture and bridge-building and its dabbling in alternative models from biology or physics, the act of programming today remains an act of writing—of typing character after character, word after word, line after line.

countries allow organizations to claim some aspects of software development as R&D and thereby receive tax benefits for doing so.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Evo Devo has not just provided a critical missing piece of the Modern Synthesis - embryology - and integrated it with molecular genetics and traditional elements such as paleontology. The wholly unexpected nature of some of its key discoveries and the unprecedented quality and depth of evidence it has provided toward settling previously unresolved questions bestow it with a revolutionary character.

We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We are matter contemplating itself.