The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.
I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948
Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite
I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent
Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway
And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein
An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown