Quotes

• Quote 48: The best schedule... - soon


• Quote 47: William Bruce Cameron
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."


• Quote 46: Leonardo da Vinci
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."


• Quote 45: Winston Churchill
"Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even though they rarely stick to their plan."


• Quote 44: W. Edwards Deming
"3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not."


• Quote 43: John Edwards, Jim Butler, Barrie Hill and Sandra Russel
"You may con a person into committing to an unreasonable deadline, but you cannot bully them into meeting it."


• Quote 42: Inspired by George S. Patton
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."


• Quote 41: Meister Eckhart
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."


• Quote 40: E. F. Schumacher
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."


• Quote 39: Michelangelo
"I am still learning." (at the age of 87)


• Quote 38: John F. Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."


• Quote 37: Bill Gates
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."


• Quote 36: Jim Barksdale
"If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine."


• Quote 35: John Lennon
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."


• Quote 34: Lil Wayne
"The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do."


• Quote 33: Benjamin Franklin
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."


• Quote 32: Albert Einstein
"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."


• Quote 31: Bill Gates
"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."


• Quote 30: W. Edwards Deming
"Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures."


• Quote 29: Mark Twain
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."


• Quote 28: Richard Branson
"Complexity is our enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple."


• Quote 27: Aesop
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."


• Quote 26: Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
"Don't live with broken windows."


• Quote 25: W. Edwards Deming
"Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge."


• Quote 24: Aubrey de Grey
"Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it."


• Quote 23: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."


• Quote 22: Steve Jobs
"In weak companies politics win. In strong companies best ideas do."


• Quote 21: Albert Einstein
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."


• Quote 20: Ovid
"Add little to little and there will be a big pile."


• Quote 19: Warren Buffett
"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."


• Quote 18: Walt Disney
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."


• Quote 17: Seth Godin
"Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important."


• Quote 16: Muhammad Ali
"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion."


• Quote 15: Sheryl Sandberg
"Done is better than perfect."


• Quote 14: Daniel Geer
"The central enemy of reliability is complexity."


• Quote 13: Lewis Caroll
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."


• Quote 12: Fredrick P. Brooks
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."


• Quote 11: Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
"Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way."


• Quote 10: John Carmack
"If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better."


• Quote 9: Chris Sacca
"Almost every attempt at making something better will be regarded by someone else as a personal attack."


• Quote 8: Nicoll Hunt
"The first step of any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty."


• Quote 7: Marilyn Monroe
"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."


• Quote 6: Meir Lehman
"An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it."


• Quote 5: Douglas Adams
"I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by."


• Quote 4: Jonathan Rosenberg
"Hope is not a plan."


• Quote 3: Alan Perlis
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."


• Quote 2: Brian W. Kernighan
"90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never."


• Quote 1: Anonymous
"The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice."