Creativity is the residue of time wasted
— Albert Einstein
In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery
Rule 27. Regardless of whether justified of not, you will feel sad about killing another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature.
Victorians should cancel whatever plans they may have had for tomorrow and take whatever steps necessary to prepare for what Premier John Brumby is calling the “worst day in the history of the state
As I tell our people constantly: we’ve all learned how to answer our email on Sundays, but none of us has learned to go to the movies on Monday afternoon. Until we learn that, we are email slaves harnessed to the wicked ways of the Profit and Loss Master.
— Ricardo Semler, Senior Sultan of Semco and author of
Maverick
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know….
