I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If so, then Microsoft would have great products.
Steve Jobs
Quotes
History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
from Seamus Heaney’s “The Cure at Troy”
I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.
Donald Rumsfeld
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
37 Signals is not a startup. We have been around since, like, 1999. We actually make tools that people want. That rules out 80% of startups.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’
From “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” by Kurt Vonnegut… RIP
Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 – New York Times
Keep Your Thoughts Positive
Thoughts Become Your Words
Keep Your Words Positive
Words Become Your Behaviors
Keep Your Behaviors Positive
Behaviors Become Your Habits
Keep Your Habits Positive
Habits Become Your Values
Keep Your Values Positive
Values Become Your Destiny
Gandhi
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement…
Ronald Reagan
Do not ask me if I would like a hamburger or a taco or maybe a large turkey sandwich on rye, because the decision-making sector of my brain has shut down entirely. All those words you are speaking make no sense and instead feel like the tip of a beak that is busily pecking at my cornea.
Sometimes, Dooce writes things that really speak to me. Sometimes, she writes things that speak for me.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker