Top 21 Reinertsen Quotes
#1. everyone is scared sometimes to do something. They don't think they can do it. They don't want to fail. They don't want to make a fool of themselves. That's when the courage really kicks in.
Claire Thompson
#2. In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#3. Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
Zahi Hawass
#5. In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#6. Don't believe on anything that someone asked you to believe in when in the first place they don't believe in.
Jinnul Jr.
#7. It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black.
Stephen King
#9. We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#12. Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#13. I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
Bob Iger
#15. All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.
William Tyndale
#16. At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life.
The passengers cheered.
Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!
Rick Riordan
#17. If we have drifted 10 heads above the zero line in our coin flip experiment, what is the probability of getting 10 tails in a row to return us to zero? About 1 in 1,000.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#18. Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.
Henry Mitchell
#20. What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
Ron Chernow
