These are the moments for which we live.
In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.
We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.
The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life. . . If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.