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I have been emailing some quotes to myself so that I can put them somewhere.
Until now, I've never really had anywhere to put them, so I figure I'll post them to my blog.
Please feel free to ignore them.
Social influence affects decision-making in a market. [Bjorn Carey]

Like any design, there isn't a hard and fast rule - rather a judging of trade-offs. [Martin Fowler]

"What is the simplest example?"
"How can you tell if the answer is right?"

Great thinkers have pondered these problems for centuries and found no answers. I doubt I'm going to get that unique flash of inspiration! [Nigel]

Where there's smoke, pour gasoline. [Fred Gratzon]

<Forrest Gump> I'm not a smart man, but I know what testing is. </Forrest Gump> [Eric Sink]

We've got the foundation (net), tools (blogs), material (experience/passion). What's this beauty going to look like? [Jeremy Heigh]

If you automate a bad or corrupt business process, you only do evil faster. [Peter - JOS]

Nobody on their death bed said "I wish I spent more time at the office" [Eric Sink]

Design adds value faster than it adds cost. [Thomas C. Gale, Chrysler automobile designer]

On Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo!
- Let the kernel do the buffering. [threads/server etc.]
- Check timing between accepting connection and first byte
- Avoid blocking on writes (set big os buffers)
- When it's time to die - fail fast (and in context)
- Multiple processes for fault isolation.

"Perfect" is the enemy of "good enough." [Guy Kawasaki]

God invented ecommerce so that you could sell direct and reap greater margins. [Guy Kawasaki]

Entrepreneurs are usually a year late in delivering their product, and their financial results are 90% lower than their "conservative" forecast. [Guy Kawasaki]

In a smaller company, we need more perfectionists, because there is no bureaucratic padding between work and the customer, which means that things have to be done right the first time.

2 comments, Misc, Thursday, March 9, 2006 15:56

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Comments
Hi Tim. Gosh, I'm flattered! Anyhow, here's another quote which I like but it's not my own - "You don't train a man out of being a fool by sending him to university. The result is just a trained fool - far more dangerous!" [Desmond Bagley]

Posted by: Nigel on Thursday, March 9, 2006 16:23
Nice quote Nigel! I guess I'm a trained fool!
Your quote really stuck in my mind as a good way not to get bogged down with pointless philosophy debates.

Posted by: Tim on Thursday, March 9, 2006 16:47

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