Quotes
Right now, this minute
“There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside than now. Right now, this minute. This is the moment that folks in the future will look back at and say, “Oh, to have been alive and well back then!””
-Kevin Kelly
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“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
-Steve Martin
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“He who is brave is free.”
-Seneca
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“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”
-Isaac Asimov
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“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
-Frank Tibolt
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“Rules are made for the convenience of those who are playing. What is fair at one time or in one game may be inhibiting later on. It’s not the game that’s sacred, it’s the people who are playing.”
-Bernard De Koven, writing about playing games but easily applied to agile software development
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“Make a mistake? Release the guilt, remember the lesson.”
-James Clear
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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
-Mark Twain
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“If we really care about our users, we’ll help them do what they want, not what we want.”
-Kathy Sierra
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Some of the best advice I ever received from a manager:
“Hope? I get to ‘hope’. You need a plan.”
Make sure you always have a plan.
“Our world is random and messy. Collecting data does not make it more perfect or more controllable.”
-Giorgia Lupi
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“The opposite of courage is conforming.”
-Brian Collins
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“You get an astronaut’s life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That’s just the deal."
-Joe Hill
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“Point of view is worth 80 IQ points.”
-Alan Kay
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“Indeed, no one can thwart the purposes of your mind - for they can’t be touched by fire, steel, tyranny, slander, or anything.”
-Marcus Aurelius
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
-G.K. Chesterton
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“It is easier to judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
-Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis
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“Listening is the engine of ingenuity. It’s difficult to understand desires and detect problems, much less develop elegant solutions, without listening.”
-Kate Murphy (no relation 😁)
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“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
-Paul Graham
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“The most effective communicators pause before they speak and ask themselves: Why am I opening my mouth?”
-Charles Duhigg
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