Quotes
Tell me without telling me about product management:
“It is crucial not to teach students only how to make gloves without ever telling them to practice by shaking hands with their neighbors, or carelessly removing their gloves with the indolence of a great theater actress”
-Renato Troncon
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“Hope clouds observation.”
-Frank Herbert (Dune)
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“Prosperity and pessimism don’t travel together.”
Quote fron the Westinghouse exhibit at the 1939 Worlds Fair
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“We go where reason - and not the absolute truth - leads us.”
-Seneca
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“Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning.”
—Winston Churchill
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“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
-Catherine Aird
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“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
-Muriel Rukeyser
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
-H.D. Thoreau
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“Art is science made clear.”
-Jean Cocteau
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.”
-Plato
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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.