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Quote of the Week (31 October)

steven — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:17:19 +0000

Quoted in a Zach Holman presentation on GitHub, but originally from Merlin Mann:

Making something a BIG RED TOP TOP BIG HIGHEST #1 PRIORITY changes nothing but text styling.

if it were really important, it’d already be done. Period.

Quote of the Week (11 July)

steven — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:53:15 +0000

From Hall of Fame basketball player/coach John Wooden:

“If You Don’t Have Time to Do It Right, When Will You Have Time to Do It Over?”

Thanks Lifehacker for the discovery.

Quote of the week (4 Jan)

steven — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:12:35 +0000

From Joey Adams:

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.

Quote of the week (28 December)

steven — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:47:36 +0000

From Arthur Bloch:

If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.

Quote of the week (14 December)

steven — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:20:36 +0000

From unknown:

QA didn’t break anything, it was broken when we got it.

Love the way this simply quote re-directs criticism of QA when bugs are uncovered.

Quote of the week (23 November)

steven — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:36:12 +0000

From an unknown source, but referenced in university notes for an agile course:

Ready, fire, aim (the fast approach to software development).
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim … (the slow approach to software development).

Quote of the week (16 November)

steven — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:20:20 +0000

From The Rapture of the Deep, by Michael Zinsley:

An adventure is never fun while it’s happening.

Quote of the week (9 November)

steven — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:30:58 +0000

From Jeff Patton, Agile Alliance, quoted in training materials on incremental release planning:

Project success is not product success

Quote of the week (2 November)

steven — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:18:20 +0000

In a comment from “John” to a gargantuan blog rant on Agile Development from Steve Yegge:

Agile Software Development is the worst software development methodology ever tried – except for all the others.

So can you guess what development approach has been selected for my latest project?

Quote of the week (12 October)

steven — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:47:27 +0000

From Dare Obasanjo:

The bottom line is that a lot of the time it’s OK to create a solution that solves 80% of the problem. Always remember that shipping is a feature.

Quote from an article: Duct Tape Programmers and the Culture of Complexity in Software Projects