Quotes
“If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
- “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein
- “Keep it small, keep it simple, make it happen.”
- “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simplier.” – Albert Einstein
- “There isn’t a good reason for that, only a bad one.” – coworker
- “People don’t do what you expect, only what you inspect.”
- “A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere till you change it.”
- “Trust but Verify” – my boss
- “Assume Positive Intent” – my boss
- “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn via @problogger
- “If you make a mistake, do it twice and smile. Then people will think you meant it.” – Eddie Van Halen via @jldavid
- “I’ll make you a deal. You don’t ask me for an estimate for something I’ve never done before, and I won’t lie to you.” @lazycoder
- “If you think a professional is expensive, try hiring an amateur.”
- “HALT, don’t make decisions when Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired” – my aunt
- “there’s no pressure, just high expectations” – coworker
- “Try and fail, but do not fail to try.”
- “Pretend to be completely in control, and people will tend to believe you are.”
- “Men have a relationship so they can have sex. Women have sex so they can have a relationship.”
- “Focus on developing solutions instead of expounding the problem.”
- “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.” – Mae West
- “The better you are, the luckier you get.”
- “The best camera is the one that’s with you.” – Chase Jarvis, video
- “I’m not a prodigy, just a protege.” – a friend
- “I think it’s a good idea to wait for things to get more mature before trying to build something less agile.” – Bram Cohen, article
- “In a great market — a market with lots of real potential customers — the market pulls product out of the startup. The market needs to be fulfilled and the market will be fulfilled, by the first viable product that comes along. The product doesn’t need to be great; it just has to basically work. And, the market doesn’t care how good the team is, as long as the team can produce that viable product.” - Marc Andreessen, article
Favorite Lists of Quotes
- Peter’s Laws (The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive)
- Albert Einstein
- Others: Albert Einstein, Mae West
