A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.
Measure everything you can about the product, and you'll start seeing patterns. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.