Building Quotes - Page 31

• Tech is all about building human connections.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Connections, Human Connection, Humans

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• The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

  Fred Brooks

  Learning, Essence, Arriving

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• When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).

  Richard E. Pattis

  Learning, Design Work, Effort

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• Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.

  James C. Collins

  Ambition, Self, Goal

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• Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Towns

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.263, PublicAffairs

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• All of the buildings, all of those cars
  Were once just a dream
  In somebodys head.

  Peter Gabriel

  Dream, Car, Just A Dream

  Song: Mercy Street For Anne Sexton

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• Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.

  David Holmgren

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Australia

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• All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

  Stephen Covey

  Dream, People, Empowering

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• Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor.

  Francis Quarles

  Fall, Honor, Foundation

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.51

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• Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.

  James Sinegal

  Attitude, Business, Long

  "The CEO Behind Costco". Interview with David Gardner, www.fool.com. January 18, 2005.

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• As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

  Chad Hurley

  Success, Business, Powerful

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• The rules of engagement around building a brand have changed significantly over the past 10 to 15 years. Where companies at one time could spread their message through traditional marketing, consumers now seek an enduring emotional connection with the companies they patronize. The foundation of that connection is the most important characteristic of building a world-class brand: trust. Trust with your people and trust with your customers.

  Howard Schultz

  Success, Business, Emotional

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• Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Husband

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.66, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Marital faithfulness involves more than just sexual fidelity. Being faithful to your wife also means defending her and affirming her beauty, intelligence, and integrity at all times, particularly before other people. Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down. Marital fidelity means that your spouse’s health, happiness, security, and welfare take a higher place in your life than anything else except your own relationship with the Lord.

  Myles Munroe

  Husband, Integrity, Mean

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.66, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

  David Adjaye

  Thinking, Makeup, Space

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• Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

  Dorothy Draper

  Giving, House, Details

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• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Men, Squares, Giving

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• When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Air

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• Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.

  Peter Seymour

  Love, Heart, Bridges

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• After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

  Lawrence Klein

  Country, Japan, East

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• The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

  Janet Reno

  Weed, Party, Marijuana

  "Exit Interview: Janet Reno". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. January 17, 2001.

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• One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

  Joey Dunlop

  Gun, Night, Two

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• The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Party, Communication, Triumph

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• Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

  Mike Paul

  Trust, Honesty, Block

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• The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

  Seth Godin

  Leaving, Mediocrity, Status Quo

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