Jeff Atwood Quotes

#1. 6. Think about what you're not thinking about

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#2. In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.

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#3. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Henry Ford

#4. I wasn't normal and it wasn't a normal world, and pretending wasn't going to accomplish a thing.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The

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#6. If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.

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#7. I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments

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#8. Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

#9. 7. Beware of comparison shopping

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#10. Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.

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#11. When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back.

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#12. She's Verglas's greatest tragedy and last hope: the Princess Rakel.

K.M. Shea

#13. You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

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#14. Oftentimes, the whole reason we became programmers in the first place is because we wanted to move beyond being a mere player and change the game, control it, modify its parameters, maybe even create our own games.

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#15. If you do not trust your people, you will not get their whole-hearted effort and you will not capitalize on the enormous creative potential of cohesive and motivated teamwork. It

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#16. The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Obviously we want to succeed. But on some level, success is irrelevant, because the process is inherently satisfying. Waking

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#18. Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Bob Hayes

#19. The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

Wendy Doniger

#20. Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#21. I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their desks.

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#22. Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

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#23. That's not to say that all software project management books are crap. Just most of them. One of the few that I've found compelling enough to finish is Johanna Rothman's "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management." She co-wrote it with Esther Derby.

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#24. Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.

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#25. 5. Pay now and consume later

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#26. It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

Sienna Miller

#27. Liar!" Violet sticks her head between my legs and pokes at it. "That's totally a hickey! Did Balls lick your beaver? Did you let Balls ball you?" "Oh

Helena Hunting

#28. My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

Warren Zevon

#29. Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction.

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#30. We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

John W. Snow

#31. We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

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#32. But everyone should try writing a little code, because it somehow sharpens the mind, right?

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#33. Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

Ziggy Marley