Daily Sparks & Quotes

"If you're going to be fighting anyway, why not fight to win and not just to survive."

"Simplicity is the prerequisite for reliability."

"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you are not going to do."

"Details matter. It is worth waiting to get it right."

"You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems."

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"Knowledge comes from noticing that things are broken. Wisdom comes from fixing them."

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

"First principles thinking is the art of questioning everything you think you know."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

"Good design is as little design as possible."

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood, rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"Action expresses priorities."

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The greatest enemy of good thinking is busywork."

"If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough."

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought."