Domon > Domon's Quotes

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Almost every software development organization has at least one developer who takes tactical programming to the extreme: a tactical tornado. The tactical tornado is a prolific programmer who pumps out code far faster than others but works in a totally tactical fashion. When it comes to implementing a quick feature, nobody gets it done faster than the tactical tornado. In some organizations, management treats tactical tornadoes as heroes. However, tactical tornadoes leave behind a wake of destruction. They are rarely considered heroes by the engineers who must work with their code in the future. Typically, other engineers must clean up the messes left behind by the tactical tornado, which makes it appear that those engineers (who are the real heroes) are making slower progress than the tactical tornado.”
― John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

“If you want people to take your advice, you need to solve more problems than you create.”
― Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

“... no matter what the client says the problem is, it is always a people problem.”
― Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

“Simplicity only makes sense in context. If I’m writing a parser with a team that understands parser generators, then using a parser generator is simple. If the team doesn’t know anything about parsing and the language is simple, a recursive descent parser is simpler.”
― Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

“Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Anytime we think the problem is out there, with others or in circumstances, that very thought itself is the problem. Because we empower what's out there to continue to control us.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything,”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life