This job is unique because it allows me to continue developing community building web applications without worrying about a ROI or a sustainable business model.
• When faced with a path being worn in the grass between buildings at a university, the typical administration will put shrubs, large rocks, cones, and/or a fence to force the students onto a predefined path. The management of most newspapers and television stations have a similar reaction. The companies that survive will spend more time looking at where their customers want to go and less time trying to stop them from getting there.
• Billions of 1s and 0s spinning on a magnetic platter thousands of times per second are converted to light on a screen that you can read. The question isn’t why does something that worked yesterday not work today, but why does it ever work?
• It’s not the project management software itself that most people hate. It’s the list of tasks they fail to complete that they don’t like, but who’s going to say, “I don’t like the fact that everyone sees that I don’t do anything around here”?
• Most people believe that IT professionals have access secret sources of information they don’t. The truth is we just read the manuals.
• Motivation is the reason why most students can upload an image to MySpace, but can’t turn in a paper using WebCT.
• If you hired a carpenter to build a book shelf and it collapsed when you put books on it, would you buy the carpenter a new hammer? A newer computer rarely solves a user’s problems.
• There are two types of people; those who have the ability to start the next Google and those who never change their browser homepage.
• There is no problem that more people, time, and money can’t solve.
• When it comes to programming, your options are quick, good, or cheap… pick two.
• Software that is simple is rarely powerful. The reverse is also true.
• I can work with people who are arrogant or ignorant, but not both.
• You know you’re old when you can’t remember the last time you said, oh s--- and ran.
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