Quotes About Development

Thinking Best Ever is one thing, making something else. Thinking goes round and round. Making rolls along, super slow maybe, but you don't end where you start.

The 8086 CPU was the first x86 processor. It was developed and manufactured by Intel, which later developed more advanced processors in the same family: the 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486. If you remember people talking about 386 and 486 processors in the '80s and '90s, this is what they were referring to.

The key to success is to be a lifelong learner who continuously works hard to improve.

When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.

To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.

if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.

Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

Bring Out the Best in Them

Nevers aren't forever!

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

The "product requirements document," for example—a leftover artifact from the 1980s—still seems to find its way into product development meetings, and those same meetings seem to spin endlessly around arguments about features, alignment, and time-to-market.

As a software developer writes a function, she commits to a strategy and a series of steps, and in doing so she eliminates other strategies or steps.

Product development process transitions

Some things get big as people store more data in them; this is called progressive commitment.

The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

in 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented "a second birth.

Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.

Humanity has been taking off like a rocket since the 1700s, but we have not achieved a stable orbit in the heavens. And even if we did, no orbit is stable in the long run. Eventually gravity claims what is hers.

Yes, of course enormous profits were made from both slavery and empire, but neither "created" capitalism... if capitalism is dependent on the sort of mass-scale exploitation implicit in slavery and imperialism, why did capitalism take so long to materialize? The ancient Chinese, Persians, Romans and Aztecs all had empires and slaves, yet none were capitalist.

I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and better and bolder, but first, I'm going to do something smaller and worse.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.