“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.” LongHandsWantedPeriodsTechniqueThrownAgain And AgainBack And ForthBack AgainBlocked Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run. The general idea is that what works most of the time is nearly the opposite of what works in the long run.” LongIdeasRunningLosesSecurityOppositesRateTechniqueLikesLong RunsLulls Author:William Eckhardt
“The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.” PeopleKnowsLongDoneFormCasesMastersDiseaseCrisisTechniqueReasoningProgrammingSoftwareInvitesEngineeringFormalGuruSoftware EngineeringCharlatansQuacksIncurable Disease Author:Edsger Dijkstra