Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Harry Hillaker: Useful purpose
“No systems can survive that doesn’t serve a useful purpose.” —Harry Hillaker.
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Alexandra Hudson: Dissatisfaction
“Dissatisfaction is baked into the human experience, keeping us all forever on the move, on the hunt, looking for the next thing. As tragic as this is, it is here we find the source of progress in the world, the unending search for a better life. And it is always a search, one that requires…
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George Herbert Walker Bush: Hairdos
“When it comes to the minds and hairdos of our young people, something had to be done.” —George Herbert Walker Bush.
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Ellen Ullman: On top of ruins
“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” – Ellen Ullman.
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Simon Sinek: Strengths
“Offer our strengths to others and we will be amazed how many people offer their strengths to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Constable: Make it beautiful
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” —John Constable, painter (11 Jun 1776-1837).
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Charlie Munger: Welcome partners
“With all of these new helpers in the world, they talk about doing deals. That is not the mindset at Berkshire. We are trying to welcome partners. It’s a total different mindset. The guy who’s doing a deal, he wants to do the deal and unwind the deal and — not too far ahead and…
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G K Chesterton: Sport
“Sport is not so much a modern relaxation as a new religion; and is more serious and unsmiling even than most new religions.” —G K Chesterton.
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Wolfgang Pauli: Speculative ideas
“If speculative ideas cannot be tested against established principles to assess their validity, they are not credible. They don’t even rise to the level of being wrong.” — Wolfgang Pauli.
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Joyce Wheeler: Pause
“Sometimes it’s better to leave something alone, to pause, and that’s very true of programming.” – Joyce Wheeler.
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Maurice Sendak: Like a lover
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.” —Maurice Sendak.
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Simon Sinek: Most effective way to rebel
“The most effective way to rebel against structure and tear down walls is first to understand the structure we aim to reinvent.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Why Christians are told not to judge
“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.” —C S Lewis.
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Martin Fowler: Write code that humans understand
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” —Martin Fowler.
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Warren Buffett: Only one vote
“The only thing you can do about it — but you only have one vote — is to elect leaders who are terribly conscious of the problem and who devote a significant part of their thought and energy into minimizing it. You can’t eliminate it. The genie is out of the bottle. And you would…
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Charlie Munger: Nuclear devices
“I think that the chances we’ll have another 60 or 70 years with no nuclear devices used on purpose is pretty close to zero. So, I think you’re right to worry about it, but I don’t, myself, think there’s much that any of us can do about it, except be as sensible as we can…
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Tim Lister: Project Management IS Risk Management
“Just exactly what is it we manage on projects if not risks? Project management IS risk management. The risk-aware manager can show you a substantial list of causal risks. He/she can tell you the likely cost in time or money should the risk materialize, and point to a specific set of materialization indicators and contingency…
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G K Chesterton: Free thought
“If free thought means that we are not free to rebuke free-thinkers, it is surely a very one-sided sort of free thought. It means that they may say anything they choose about all we hold most dear, and we must not say anything we think in protest against all we hold most damnable.” —G K…
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Tim Berners-Lee: Propensity to dream
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” —Tim Berners-Lee.
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Dan Rockwell: Secrets strangle engagement
“Secrets strangle engagement. No one feels engaged when upper management drops stingy nuggets of information to the minions on the frontline.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Patrick McKenzie: Every great developer
“Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.” – Patrick McKenzie.
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Candy bars
“Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.” —Gwendolyn Brooks, poet (7 Jun 1917-2000).
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Warren Buffett: Big trends
“We don’t play big trends. We don’t think about demographic trends or anything of the sort…. Big trends, they just don’t mean that much. There’s too much money to be made from year to year to think about things that take decades to manifest themselves.” –Warren Buffett.
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Louis Srygley: Art of adding bugs
“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.”- Louis Srygley.
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Deborah Tannen: Biggest mistake
“The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.” —Deborah Tannen.
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Mignon McLaughlin: Impossible
“It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.” —-Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author.
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Thomas Mann: Writing
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” —Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades.
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George T Angell: At the roots
‘I’m sometimes asked “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer: “I am working at the roots.”‘ —George T. Angell, reformer (5 Jun 1823-1909).
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Dan Rockwell: Performance conversation starters
‘Performance conversation starters: “What do you see in me that’s holding me back?” “How might I make new contributions to our organization?” “What are your aspirations for my leadership? “What are my greatest opportunities, from your point of view?”’ —Dan Rockwell.
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Howard Marks: What you pay for it
“It’s not what you buy that determines your results, it’s what you pay for it.” –Howard Marks (Mastering the Market Cycle).
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John Maynard Keynes: What do you do, sir?
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?” —John Maynard Keynes.
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Virginia Satir: Adolescents are not monsters
“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.” —Virginia Satir.
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Robert Fulghum: Learn some and think some
“Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” —Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937).
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Simon Sinek: Integrity
“Integrity is when we say the same things publicly that we say privately.” —Simon Sinek.
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Robert Fulghum: True love
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness. And call it LOVE. True love.” —Robert Fulghum, True LOVE.
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Allen Ginsberg: Inner moonlight
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” —Allen Ginsberg, poet (3 Jun 1926-1997).
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Graham & Dodd: Standards of safety
“In 1928 and 1929 there occurred a wholesale and disastrous relaxation of the standards of safety previously observed by the reputable houses of issue. This was shown in the sale of many new offerings of inferior grade, aided in part by questionable methods of presenting the facts to the public. The general collapse in values…
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Benjamin Hart: Pluralism
“Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.” —Benjamin Hart.
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Milind Soman: Smokers
“Smokers: Young enough to think they can. Old enough to think they shouldn’t. Stupid enough to think it anyway.” —Milind Soman.
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Kamala Harris: When your breath stinks
“Surround yourself with really good friends. Have people around you who cheer you on, and applaud you, and support you, and are honest with you, and tell you, you know, when your breath stinks.” —Kamala Harris.
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Jefferson Davis: Never be haughty to the humble
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.” —Jefferson Davis.
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Carol Shields: Open a book
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.” —Carol Shields, The Republic of Love.
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Ron Jeffries: When you actually need them
“Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them.” —Ron Jeffries.
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W T Sherman: Only those
“It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation”. The American Civil War General, W. T. Sherman, speaking in 1879.
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Thomas Kempis: Greater measure
“The man who ranks himself below all others and counts himself unworthy of God’s favour is better fitted for receiving that favour in greater measure.” —Thomas Kempis.
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Morgan Freeman: Be still
“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” —Morgan Freeman.
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Walt Whitman: Journey-work of the stars
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892).
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Thomas Fuchs: Best error message
“The best error message is the one that never shows up.” —Thomas Fuchs.
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Andrew Carnegie: Thine own reproach alone do fear
‘I think my optimistic nature, my ability to shed trouble and to laugh through life, making “all my ducks swans,” as friends say I do, must have been inherited from this delightful old masquerading grandfather whose name I am proud to bear. A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that…
