How good the design is doesn’t matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.
If testing costs more than not testing, then don’t test.
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
Of the four project development variables – scope, cost, time and quality – quality isn’t really a free variable. The only possible values are “excellent” and “insanely excellent”, depending on whether lives are at stake.
The system metaphor is a story that everyone – customers, programmers, and managers – can tell about how the system works.
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.
Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That’s all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.
Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical...
The community isn’t nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.
If you’re having trouble succeeding, fail.
I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!
Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can’t get the same effect with TV unless you’re very drunk.
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.
A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way!
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.
The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.
I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don’t understand it and I don’t think anyone else does either.
There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I’s he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and rappelled to the talus and hid well.