Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb
Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.
Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business
Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it means facing the truth and then moving on. -- George Leonard, Mastery.
What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham
If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren