Quotes

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.