Steady quotes

Aesop

Slow but Steady

“Slow but steady wins the race.”

• Source: Aesop words originally written in Greek circa 563 BCE. Translated by George Fyler Townsend, first published as “Aesop's Fables” in 1867. Published again by Public Domain Books 2008. Online at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21 retrieved 2021. In the fable ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’.
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  • Aesop_quotes/Slow_but_Steady

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Tom_DeMarco and Tim_Lister

Cheeseburgers

"Development is inherently different from production. But managers of development and allied efforts often allow their thinking to be shaped by a management philosophy derived entirely from a production environment.
Imagine for the moment that you’re the manager of the local fast food franchise. It makes perfect sense for you to take any or all of the following efficient production measures:
- Squeeze out error. Make the machine (the human machine) run as smoothly as possible.
- Take a hard line about people goofing off on the job.
- Treat workers as interchangeable pieces of the machine.
- Optimize the steady state. (Don’t even think about how the operation got up to speed, or what it would take to close it down.)
- Standardize procedure. Do everything by the book.
- Eliminate experimentation—that’s what the folks at headquarters are paid for.
These would be reasonable approaches if you were in the fast food business (or any production environment), but you’re not. The 'make a cheeseburger, sell a cheeseburger' mentality can be fatal in your development area. It can only serve to damp your people’s spirits and focus their attention away from the real problems at hand. This style of management will be directly at odds with the work.
To manage thinking workers effectively, you need to take measures nearly opposite those listed above."

• Source: Book: Entitled: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Edition: 3rd. Written by: Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister. Date published: 1987; 1999; 2013. Publisher: Addison-Wesley. Country: USA; GBR; CAN; DEU; FRA; ESP; ZAF; AUS; JPN; SGP; MEX. Language: en. ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-321-93411-6 (alk paper); 0-321-93411-3 (alk paper). Chapter: 2 (Make a Cheeseburger, Sell a Cheeseburger).

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  • DeMarco_and_Lister_quotes/Cheeseburgers

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Charles_Issawi

Issawi's Laws of Progress

“The course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
The Dialectics: Direct action produces direct reaction.
The Pace of Progress: Society is a mule, not a car… If pressed too hard, it will kick and throw off its rider.”

• Source: Issawi’s Laws of Social Motion, enlarged ed., by Charles Issawi, illustrated by David Pascal. Published by Hawthorne Books in 1973.

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  • Charles_Issawi_quotes/Issawis_Laws_of_Progress

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Karl_Popper

Science Not Certain

“Science is not a system of certain, or established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover — discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science — 'the method of reasoning which men now ordinarily apply to nature' — as consisting of 'anticipations, rash and premature' and as 'prejudices'.”

• Source: Karl Raimund Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959), 278.

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  • Karl_Popper_quotes/Science_Not_Certain

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