Gerald M Weinberg Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#5. The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.

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#6. 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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#7. No matter what the problem is, it's a people problem.

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#8. 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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#9. I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

Sylvia Plath

#10. As impossibly paradoxical as is seems, is it possible that our limp is the very thing that allows us to run? And without a limp, could we in reality run?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

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

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

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

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

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#17. Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

Paul Harvey

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

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#19. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

Cary Fukunaga

#20. Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

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#24. (Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit," which was and is awesome.)

Tina Fey

#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In

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#28. ...it wasn't for the love of a man that she took those chances, but for the love of a horse.

Joan Hiatt Harlow

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

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#30. Consultancy can be too short; or too long.

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

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

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#34. Where there is even the subtlest desire, the 'Eternal Thing' cannot be attained.

Dada Bhagwan

#35. The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.

Greg Gutfeld