Quotes About Development

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

Eric Raymond says, "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to reuse.

The Only Thing More Expensive Than Writing Software Is Writing Bad Software

Many developers and usability professionals still approach interface design by asking what the tasks are. Although this may get the job done, it won't produce much more than an incremental improvement: It won't provide a solution that differentiates your product in the market, and very often it won't really satisfy the user.

There is a lot of obsessive behavior in Silicon Valley about time to market. It is frequently asserted that shipping a product right now is far better than shipping it later.

The ages thirteen to fifteen are a time of great intellectual development and energy that is largely wasted in the United States. Students this age in other countries work much harder than Americans, thereby putting Americans permanently behind.

Reading builds character and increases knowledge.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." All in Churchill's deep, rumbling, and fiercely inspiring voice.

Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.

You and I and everyone else are a bit like turtles: we only make progress when we stick our necks out a little.

the prototype version of the Internet, the Arpanet, was developed in nineteen sixty-nine, at UCLA. Nineteen sixty-nine.

Maybe, Reshmina thought, they wouldn't fight at all. Maybe they would spend their time doing something else instead, like building factories and schools and hospitals.

Four decades after Thomas Edison's spectacular illumination of Lower Manhattan in 1882, electricity had done little to make the country's factories more productive.

America's share of the world's patents has increased from 10 percent when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 to 20 percent today.

America's genius lay in three things that are rather more subtle than invention: making innovations more user friendly; producing companies that can commercialize these innovations; and developing techniques for running these companies successfully.

Neil Cole wryly notes, "If you can't reproduce disciples, you can't reproduce leaders. If you can't reproduce leaders, you can't reproduce churches. If you can't reproduce churches, you can't reproduce movements."32

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Just as one will not get far on the road to happiness by predefining the characteristics of happiness and then going to look for them, we will not grasp what it means to be the church in our time by beginning with church questions, even if they are questions about the church's health, effectiveness, or its natural development!

They civilize what's pretty By puttin' up a city Where nothin' that's Pretty can grow.... They civilize left They civilize right Till nothing is left Till nothing is right

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.