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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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“Users don’t evangelize to their friends because they like the product, they evangelized their friends because they like their friends.”
-Kathy Sierra
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“Creativity is just problem solving”
“Creativity is just problem solving. Once people see it as problem solving, it stops seeming like magic, because it’s not. Brokers are just people who pay more attention to what problems look like and how they’ve been solved before. People who are most creative are the ones who have learned that feeling scared is a good sign. We just have to learn how to trust ourselves enough to let the creativity out.”
-Ed Catmull
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“Be careful not to overcomplicate your systems to the point where you can only maintain them when you are at your peak of mental clarity.”
-the David Allen Company
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“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.”
-Coleman Cox
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“Computers fail, checklists fail, everything can fail. But people can’t. We have to make decisions, and that includes deciding what deserves our attention. The key is forcing yourself to think. As long as you’re thinking, you’re halfway home.”
-Richard Champion de Crespigny
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