Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
One of our deepest, most fundamental problems as a craft is that we have enshrined “velocity” above all else, willfully blinding ourselves to the long-term consequences of gimcrack software.
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn’t follow tastes.
Too many teams are so busy bailing out water that they don’t have time to fix the leak. Schedule it. Fix it.
When the economy is good stocks go up, and when the economy is shit, they print so much money stocks go up even more.
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.