When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep at bay the influences of the world that would draw us from what we are to do.
You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.
When we know who we are and what we are supposed to do, it is easier to make important decisions about education, careers, and marriage. It is easier to shine our light in our families, with our friends, and in all other places.
Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women.
There’s an opportunity cost to everything.
All faithful members of the Lord’s Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances.
I’ve never seen anyone go on the DL with pulled fat.
I sure don’t think of myself as a fat person, just someone who carries extra weight. I’ve never seen anyone on the DL with pulled fat.
I’m old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.
I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.
I don’t like the feeling, but I’ve got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.
I’ve known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn’t change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.
Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I’m amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.
I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren’t more important stories out there. An iteration’s worth of data is worth months of speculation.
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.