Gerald M. Weinberg Quotes

#1. PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.
RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

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#2. If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse

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#3. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

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#4. There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.

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#5. Jane easily shifts among activities - testing for discovery, pinpointing, locating, determining significance, repairing, troubleshooting, and testing to learn. As long as she continues to serve her customers, it doesn't really matter which task she performs at any given time.

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#6. Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In

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#7. Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.

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#8. One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.

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#9. When is the 'look out the windshield phase' of driving? Pretty much all driving is looking out the windshield! It's not a phase. Saying 'testing takes too long' is a bit like saying 'safe driving takes too long.

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#10. Problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way.

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#11. Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

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#12. If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One

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#13. Words are easy to change, but don't accomplish much.

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#14. If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

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#15. Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

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#16. What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

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#17. In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.

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#18. Effective leaders often have to act even when they don't understand all possible factors

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#19. The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

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#20. If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

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#21. Admiring remarks of my team as I track down the latest obscure but in the Project Mercury Monitor System.

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#22. In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

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