You don’t need to be constantly reminding yourself why you shouldn’t wait. Just don’t wait.
—— Paul Graham, Life is Short
Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started. 有关使命感的种种想法常常是不成熟的、不完整的,这些想法只有在实践中才能逐渐变得清晰,你只需要开始行动就好。
—— Mark Zuckerberg, Co-founder and CEO of Facebook
Software Engineering
The wisdom of the software field is not increasing.
软件业的智慧一直没有增长。
—— Robert L. Glass,Facts and fallacies of software engineering
We build systems like the Wright brothers built airplanes — build the whole thing, push it off the cliff, let it crash, and start over again.我们开发软件系统就像莱特兄弟制造飞机——造好整个系统,把它推下悬崖,让它坠毁,然后重新开始。
—— Graham, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.你不能只问客户他们想要什么,然后想法子给他们做什么。等你做出来,他们已经另有新欢了。
—— Steve Jobs,http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890401/5602.html