Thomas Edison on Talk the talk, Walk the walk (kinda)
“I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.” - Thomas Edisonhmmm … “Talk the Talk, Walk the walk“.
Web Development Quotes and Wisdom
Do it. F***ing Now!
Dreamers don’t make money. Doers make money. And doers “Do it F***ing Now.”
- Yes, But What Have You *Done*? excerpt from Do it Fucking Now
on ideas and executions
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s execution that counts.
… interruption and collaboration
After all, one person’s interruption is another’s collaboration.
Design is how it works.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like, That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
… developers can bring real value to a business.
It is the developers that you want working in your organization. Programmers are a dime a dozen, but developers can bring real value to a business. Wise employers know how to tell the difference.
… Friendsterfication
"Friendsterfication." That’s what happens when everyone leaves your service and goes somewhere else because your service is just too slow or unusable.
… Gall’s law
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
… EXCLUSIVE: Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah’s Ark Mystery
“Image interpretation is an art”-Farouk El-Baz, Director of the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing.
… among Google’s first 20 employees
Often differences of opinion between smart people are differences of data-Marissa Mayer