Quotes About Iteration

#1. The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

Bruce Barton

#2. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

George Eliot

#3. An iteration isn't a copy, Mother. It's just the latest version. I'm your upgrade. That's why I did what I did. Because I'm just better than you.

Madeline Ashby

#4. I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.

William Congreve

#5. It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.

David Maraniss

#6. I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.

Kent Beck

#7. One little thing led to another. One success, one particular challenge, could spur thoughts about another product, or a different iteration of an existing product, or a whole new channel of revenue. As Steve liked to say, "You can only connect the dots of how things really happened in hindsight.

Brent Schlender

#8. This oath, which resides at the core of every iteration of Batman that has ever or will ever exist, from pulp antihero to TV buffoon, is much more practical and matter-of-fact. It is a declaration of war. The

Glen Weldon

#9. Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him.

Mary Lascelles

#10. O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

William Shakespeare

#11. Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews - product, technical, process, team - is also self-correcting.

Jim Highsmith

#12. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.

George E.P. Box

#13. I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

James Taylor

#14. One of the Scrum rules is that work cannot be pushed onto a team; the Product Owner offers items for the iteration, and the team pulls as many as they decide they can do at a sustainable pace with good quality.

Craig Larman

#15. Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Andrew looked as he always had, and Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different.

Nora Sakavic

#17. your first idea is unlikely to be the best, so you should be optimising for speed of iteration rather than quality of prototype.

Adrian McEwen

#18. There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

Austin O'Malley

#19. Every living thing is just a random iteration on some other organism, and the best iterations win.

Peter Thiel

#20. Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

Bruce Hoffman

#21. Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons. As her brother Edwin, who was fond of homely imagery, had often observed, she could talk the hind-leg off a donkey. "You

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. Did you know that Judaism is based on paradigm shifts, Henry? First came Abraham, then came Moses. Then came the prophets, then came the rabbis. Pretty amazing stuff. Each iteration, reaching for the godhead. What comes next, Henry? What comes next?

Michael Davidow

#23. Minds do not leap. Observation, evaluation, and iteration, not sudden shifts of perception, solve problems and lead us to creation.

Kevin Ashton

#24. Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

Sebastian Thrun

#25. The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

Mark Zuckerberg

#26. What's the use of fast iteration if all it does is get us to a suboptimal solution more quickly,

Rian Van Der Merwe

#27. You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion.

Steve McConnell

#28. Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Beck

#29. The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three "I"s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.

Pearl Zhu

#30. I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.

Matt Mullenweg

#31. Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of "if only's" leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one's final iteration of the excuse became one's final utterance, and one expired.

Andrew Levkoff

#32. I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.

Joe Abercrombie

#33. You may go through two, three, or more iterations of the product, and by the nth iteration, the model you created for the first iteration will be hopelessly inappropriate. Paradoxically, emphasizing a business model prematurely, you may block yourself from the best money-making opportunities.

Howard Love

#34. Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

Kate O'Neill