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Leadership is disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb. ― Ronald Heifetz, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading
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The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
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A kick-ass half is better than a half-assed whole — Rework
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Legacy is just a decision made in the past with or without your participation — Italo Santos
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With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract. All observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
— Hyrum's Law
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Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other programmers.
— Russ Cox, GopherCon Singapore 2018
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Unhappy teams and organizations are often very similar, while happy/successful teams and organizations can be quite different
Joshua Arnold, The Reverse Anna Karenina principle
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A thousand “quick wins” do not create durable advantages or fulfill a long-term vision.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work
Daniel Burnham
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People don’t want to hear your opinion. They want to hear their opinion, coming out of your mouth
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Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine
Bob Carter
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If the train leaves every 5 minutes you don't care about a timetable. If it leaves every 2 days you want to know *exactly* when it leaves
analogy from Marcus Hamrin reflecting on planning, estimating and software delivery (via Marcin Floryan)
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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Apocryphal
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If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine
Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape
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Without data, you're just another person with an opinion
W. Edwards Deming
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Your distributed system exists in a continuous state of partial degradation. There are bugs and flakes and failures all the way down, and hardly any of them ever matter. Until they do.
Charity Majors on Twitter
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