You must undergo the experience

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

New ideas pass through three phases: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Arthur C. Clarke

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. And then it's not that...

Steve Jobs, 1998

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

John Gardner

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Albert Einstein

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

Quality is controlled by the actual work process, not the prescriptive process descriptions.

Ken Schwaber

You can't direct the wind, but you can always adjust your sails.

Unknown

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Donald E. Knuth

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

Tänka rätt är stort. Tänka fritt är större.

Okänd

Minds are like parachutes, they only work when they are open.

Thomas Dewar

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Steve Jobs

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Bill Gates

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

Lester R. Bittel

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

John Gall

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Adding manpower to an already late software project makes it later.

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. ("Brook's Law")

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain.

Philip Crosby

All models are wrong, some might actually be useful.

George Box

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of their own skull. They therefore approach their task with full humility, and avoid clever tricks like the plague.

Edsger Dijkstra

Ideas are the starting points of all fortunes.

Napoleon Hill

No allowance ever seems to be made for the systems implementation uncertainty principle, the fact that the act of implementing a system changes a users perception of his needs.

Martyn Jeffreys

Without changing our current patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.

Albert Einstein

Everyone is promoted to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter ("The Peter Principle")

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong.

Dr. David M. Burns

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I've meet project managers that actually believed in the Gantt chart...

Johanna Rothman

The Business Case Fallacy: Basing decisions on the two most unknowable data, how much you are going to make and how much it is going to cost.

Marty Cagan

A one in a million chance is next Tuesday

Unknown programmer

Developers reach deadlines faster if they skip TDD in the same way that skydivers reach the ground faster if they skip parachutes.

Joakim Karlsson

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Incorrectly attributed to Charles Darwin

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Collaborating alone is like trying to clap with one hand

Mark Levinson?

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Kettering

Never tell a man how to do something. Tell him what to do and let him decide how to do it. He will surprise you with his ingenuity.

General Patton

If someone thinks refactoring belongs on the backlog, they probably don’t understand refactoring, or backlogs, or both

Ron Jeffries

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