The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
Frederick P. Brooks
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
John Gall
The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you
Jason FriedDavid Heinemeier Hansson
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Frederick P. Brooks
Innovate when you know you have a better idea (and everybody you show it says “Wow!”), but take advantage of you don’t.
Steve Krug
Artists and designers are trained to use the language of explicit meanings to a rich communicative element over and above direct functional communication. If we only design with the function of something, not what it also communicates, we risk our designs being misinterpreted. Worst, we waste an opportunity to enhance everyday life.
Bill Moggridge
The business world is littered with dead documents that do nothing but waste people’s time, reports that no one reads, diagrams that no one looks at, and specs that never resemble the finished product. These things take forever to make, but only seconds to forget.
Jason FriedDavid Heinemeier Hansson
Douglas Crockford: Code reading requires a lot of trust on the part of the team members so there have to be clear rules as to what's in bounds and what's not. If you had a dysfunctional team, you don't want to be doing this, because they'll tear themselves apart.
Peter Seibel
If you want to produce things on time and on budget, all you have to do is work until you run out of time or run out of money. Then ship.
Seth Godin
Should software be built by teams that are disciplined and factory-like, or by teams that are flexible and highly self-motivated?
Robert L Glass

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