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Love this: On dev executing the "right way": https://basecamp.com/shapeup “Most things in life have a dynamic range in which average to best is at most 2:1. For example if you go to New York City and get an average taxi cab driver versus the best taxi cab driver, you’ll probably get to your destination with the best taxi driver 30% faster. And an automobile; What’s the difference between the average car and the best? Maybe 20% ? The best CD player versus the average CD player? Maybe 20% ? So 2:1 is a big dynamic range for most things in life. Now, in software, and it used ot be the case in hardware, the difference between the average software developer and the best is 50:1; Maybe even 100:1. Very few things in life are like this, but what I was lucky enough to spend my life doing, which is software, is like this.” ~ Steve Jobs in Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview Brook’s Law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” ~ Fred Brooks “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke |