“Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.” WantLittlesImportantBitsGrowthQualityBuddhismDevelopmentBalanceLittle BitRapidsRapid GrowthContinual Growth Author:Frederick Lenz
“Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.” FirstsLittlesLongInterestMinutesDangerObjectsDevelopmentFirst TimeOrganizationPaidDebtSpeedCodeEngineeringLoadImplementationShippingStandstill Author:Ward Cunningham
“There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial: both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him during the trial.” LittlesWould BeThreeSidesInterestingMinutesDevelopmentTrialsLittle ThingsBoth SidesJuryAnnoyedRooney Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book
“The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.” LittlesProgressDevelopmentShapes Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.” ThinkingLittlesDevelopmentExerciseAlternativesArrestedRetrospect Author:Will Self
“Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenKindLittlesLawEconomicDevelopmentChinaRule Of LawEconomic Development Author:John Kasich
“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.” MenWorldLittlesNaturalRoomsDevelopmentTeethNakedThrownFreakBubblesCoveringSkullsPudding Author:William Golding