engineering

Focusing is about saying no.

- Steve Jobs

No is temporary, yes is forever.

- Solomon Hykes

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not starting point.

- Frederick W. Maitland

Details are the gateways to new worlds.

- Stephen Jay Gould

A written constitution is better than an unwritten one.

- Teddy Roosevelt

Organizations which design systems are restricted to producing designs which are copies of their own communication structures.

- Melvin Conway

A worldview is the projection of psychological inclination onto reality.

- George Packer

Rarely does one recognize or discover a complex problem, formulate it, and lay out a procedure that will solve it - all in one great flash of insight.

- J. C. R. Licklider

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

- Donald Knuth

If one plan won’t do, another must.

- John Roebling

Projects of magnitude demand the smooth turning of many wheels. Wheels with wheels, a number of which are often carefully, cleverly concealed.

- David McCullough

Every system has within it the seeds of its own destruction.

- Daniel Yergin

The minute you establish an organization, it starts to decay.

- Tony Peskett

Control intelligence, and you control decision making.

- David Halberstam

It may be time to no longer invest further in lengthening time between failures, but instead on shortening meantime to repair.

- Dan Geer

Great and distant enterprises perish from the very magnitude of the preparations made to ensure their success.

- Montaigne

Show not only the goal; show also the road.

- Ferdinand Lassalle

Innovate or die.

- Roone Arledge