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by rokhayakebe • 19 years ago

7 33 19 years ago

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Mine "I you wait for the Ferrari, You may miss the Pento and You will end up walking" In other words grab what is here "now" while still setting your sight on the bigger prize.

german• 19 years ago

"Let It Flow"

rokhayakebe4• 19 years ago

i like that. it is funny that you say it. Sometimes we spend hours trying to figuring soemthing or days trying to get something (or someone in my case) and the minute you stop trying it all happens. I think by trying we are making it hard for "anything" itself to make it happen so just "let if flow"

nmeyer• 19 years ago

"Oh shit."

brlewis• 19 years ago

My best quote for motivation:

"Sounds great. How soon can we have that?" -- from a user.

abstractbill2• 19 years ago

"Sure, what could go wrong?"

(the consequences of me saying that too often are great motivation for me being more careful).

rokhayakebe4• 19 years ago

Answer that question once when you are single and no mortgage, but if you have a life partner and house.., you may want to answer it a few more times.

abstractbill2• 19 years ago

Actually I was thinking more in terms of pushing code into production that I haven't tested properly. In all other things I try to make a habit of embracing risk.

eposts• 19 years ago

Stop wasting time and get back to work.

edw519• 19 years ago

It can't be done.

rokhayakebe4• 19 years ago

specially when your friends say it.

MuddyMo• 19 years ago

"You can't shit a feature."

newworldszz• 19 years ago

if you are asking us to give a quote then it can't be mine - it has to be a "quote" i would therefore say "one moment in annihilations waste, one moment the well of life to taste" and it is quoting Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Kyham

joeguilmette• 19 years ago

"stay hungry, stay foolish." -jobs commencement speech

jey• 19 years ago

"Quit reading news.yc, you slacker."

nostrademons• 19 years ago

"In startup world, code writes YOU!"

uuilly• 19 years ago

averages are for average people

DocSavage• 19 years ago

[After YC denial]

"Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now. Cause when the goin' gets tough.... ..... .... the hackers get goin! Who's with me?? Let's go!"

sadiq2• 19 years ago

Erm, didn't the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour?

rms• 19 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/quotes

staunch• 19 years ago

Wondering when you were going to be called on to work really hard? It's now. Step up.

Hexayurt• 19 years ago

"If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."

I thought this was mine for years, but Chesterton beat me to it. Generally, if something is worthwhile, but not critical, it's worth spending the 20% of the time to get it 80% of the way there, and doing five such slipshod jobs, rather than one perfect one.

This is contrary to every reasonable software engineering practice, which is probably because it works better for things which aren't software, like user testing or business planning.

awt• 19 years ago

This is a gem. It is now the subtitle of my blog. It will be misinterpreted, but oh well.

bluishgreen• 19 years ago

"It works in my machine"

DanielBMarkham• 19 years ago

Aaargh!

I swore I would shoot the next person that said that to me. :)

apstyx• 19 years ago

"A system only reflects the business"

Working on a few large projects I have realized that a system is never perfect, but a crappy business always has a crappy system. Happy company = happy system.

My 2 cents an most probably said by someone before me.

euccastro• 19 years ago

A former employer once got a present from I-don't-know-who. It was a bunch of magnetic labels with "empowering" words, with which the employees were supposed to build "motivating" sentences. These are the ones I can remember from the drinks fridge:

WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN YOU EVER MAKE!

DISCIPLINE ME.

THE EFFORT IS TO (sic) GREAT!

jamiequint• 19 years ago

"ordinary actions, ordinary results"

chris_l• 19 years ago

I'll give you my own translation of Goethe: "sowing is not so hard as reaping"

sanj• 19 years ago

"The world tends to work out for me. I try to give it reason to."

ceesai• 19 years ago

The world is a game and my breath is my only anchor.

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