Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of
bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just
done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
--Alan Kay

Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand.
Putt's Law

Today's Professional Management FUNDAS

..:: "We will do it" means "You will do it"

..:: "You have done a great job" means "More work to be given to you"

..:: "We are working on it" means "We have not yet started working on the same"

..:: "Tomorrow first thing in the morning" means "Its not getting done"At least not tomorrow!"

..:: "After discussion we will decide-I am very open to views" means "I have already decided,
I will tell you what to do"

..:: "There was a slight miscommunication" means "We had actually lied"

..:: "Lets call a meeting and discuss" means "I have no time now, will talk later"

..:: "We can always do it" means "We actually cannot do the same on time"

..:: "We are on the right track but there needs to be a slight extension of the deadline" means
"The project is screwed up, we cannot deliver on time."

..:: "We had slight differences of opinion "means "We had actually fought"

..:: "Make a list of the work that you do and let's see how I can help you" means
"Anyway you have to find a way out no help from me"

..:: "You should have told me earlier" means "Well even if you told me earlier that would have
made hardly any difference!"

..:: "We need to find out the real reason" means "Well I will tell you where your fault is"

..:: "Well Family is important; your leave is always granted. Just ensure that the work is not
affected ," means, "Well you know..."

..:: "We are a team," means, "I am not the only one to be blamed"

..:: "That's actually a good question" means "I do not know anything about it

..:: "All the Best" means "You are in trouble"

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America . If I'm not there, I go to work.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in
Edsger Dijkstra

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair
Douglas Noel Adams

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Progress isn't made by early risers or hard workers, but by Lazy people, trying to find easier ways to do the same
Henry Ford

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

William Jennings Bryan

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

William Shakespeare

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
Henry Ward Beecher

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein