“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
“A good plan violently executed today, is far and away better than a perfect plan next week.”
“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference.”
“Success is a by-product of iron-willed restraint — a choice firmly made and vociferously reasserted at every challenge to limit a project’s scope. Where you find software success stories, you invariably find people who are good at saying no. [...] the successful programmer thrives because of, not in spite of, constraints.”
“"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."”
“The best way to see a country, unless you are pressed for time, is to travel on foot.”
“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”
“...maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need "social media marketing" after all.”
“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. People who consider price alone are this man’s lawful prey.”
“I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means making useful objects with perhaps decorative touches. Fine art means making things purely for their beauty.”