Proverbs

These are little sayings that I’ve picked up from others and some that I’ve found on my own. They guide me in the right direction.

It’s not fully shipped until it’s fast.

Practicality beats purity.

Avoid administrative distraction.

Mind your words, they are important.

Non-blocking is better than blocking.

Design for failure.

Half measures are as bad as nothing at all.

Favor focus over features.

Approachable is better than simple.

Encourage flow.

Anything added dilutes everything else.

Speak like a human.

Responsive is better than fast.

Keep it logically awesome.

Do it right, or you’ll need to do it over.

Collaboration through communication.

Solve the right problem.

Shipping is a feature.

First solve the problem. Then write the code.

Before making it better, stop making it worse.

Thinking is also work.

To go left, turn right.

Bugs and features don’t add, they compound.

It be like that sometimes.

Take a break :)

Make the change easy, then make the easy change.

Have you been told lately that you rock?

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

In software, everything is possible but nothing is free.

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

Work without a vision is toil. Vision without work is a daydream.

Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.

Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover.

No problems, no progress.

A well-defined problem is half-solved.

Mood follows action expresses mood.

A name means a lot just by itself.

If you can’t get out of it, get into it.

One change makes seven.

Anything you do not give freely becomes lost to you.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Make things. Not too much. Mostly for others.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

People act on the stories they know.

Work in public.

Go places. Not too much. Mostly self-powered.