Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology. . . and you can build software then, around the user.
I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot say that there isn't a lot of knowledge that's been obtained in this field. In the same way, with these complex physical phenomena between solid state physics, you can say a lot of things without necessarily knowing the next step.