* Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. - Richard Feynman
* Let's clarify : Jira is not Agile, Open Source is not Free, Using cloud is not DevOps, Rituals is not Scrum, Developed is not Done" Lemi Orhan Ergin. [Source](https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/859158123722010628)
* Software being 'Done' is like lawn being 'Mowed'. - Jim Benson
* Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, he'll find 10 issues. Ask him to do 500 lines and he'll say it looks good. [Source](https://twitter.com/girayozil/statuses/306836785739210752)
* In my experience teams that don't do scrum 'properly' work better. They focus more on their productivity than getting the process right - [Daniel Grant](https://twitter.com/djgrant_/statuses/436536267330039809)
* How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to waste time: social media. - [Matt Haig](https://twitter.com/matthaig1/statuses/450238719858323456)
* Sometimes it seems like 80% of my job is convincing decision makers to listen to the people who work for them. - [Jesse James Garrett](https://twitter.com/jjg/statuses/474987558154153984)
* Software developers think their job is writing code. But it's not. Their job is to solve the customer's problem. [Billy Hollis](https://blog.codinghorror.com/can-your-team-pass-the-elevator-test/) + [Video] [Billy Hollis - CodeHeads Anonymous](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiGsw_k8JhY)
* It's not about being first to market, it's about being the best. / It's Never Too Late / Just do it better. [The Next Web](https://twitter.com/Shaun_Springer/statuses/498529232545669121)
* Le talent ça n'existe pas. Le talent c'est avoir envie de faire quelque chose / Talent does not exist. Talent is only hard work . - [Jacques Brel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ylq9CU2lg)
* Le succès vient souvent d’un faux pas dans la bonne direction. / Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction - Al Bernstein
* I have a feeling that each task I strike off on my todo list gives birth to a few more tasks. - [Venkat Subramaniam](https://twitter.com/venkat_s/status/526145900515962880)
* Poor quality code is a reflection of lack of respect we carry for what we do, often with out realizing it. [Venkat Subramaniam](https://twitter.com/venkat_s/statuses/521625754485157889)
* Solving problems you probably don’t have creates more problems you definitely do - [Mike Acton](https://www.slideshare.net/cellperformance/data-oriented-design-and-c)
* Enemies of creativity: 1 desire to please all 2 big ego 3 self-doubt 4 control 5 fear of failure 6 process rigor 7 impatience 8 abundance. - [Vala Afshar](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/538067497023311872)
* Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to. - [Richard Branson](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/538086077861748736)
* Punctuality is something you regret when everyone else does not care and is late / La ponctualité c'est un truc que tu regrettes quand t'es le seul con à être arrivé à l'heure au rendez-vous - [MorganGeek](https://twitter.com/MorganGeek/statuses/537579386778959873)
* The backlog is a tool for development, not planning. Throw it away monthly. If you fear forgetting something, it's prob. not that important. - [Mike Veerman](https://twitter.com/mikeveerman/status/920274432148561920)
* Your organisation should be adapted to your product, not the other way around. - [Mike Veerman](https://twitter.com/mikeveerman/status/920937671287066624)
* “Employees don’t quit companies; they quit managers.” Yes, and they also _stay on_ for managers. Let great managers leave at your peril. - [Jochen Wolters](https://twitter.com/jochenWolters/status/918685909549178882)
* Technology is the easy part of automation. - [Mike Veerman](https://twitter.com/mikeveerman/status/921439736107098115)
* A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked - [John Gall](https://twitter.com/abt_programming/statuses/537307993151246336)
* If someone tell you he understand your build process, you probably have to explain him better / Si quelqu'un comprend notre processus de build, c'est qu'on lui a pas bien expliqué.... [MorganGeek](https://twitter.com/MorganGeek/statuses/537192681609658368)
* "Your idea is better, but we're going to ignore it, since that's not the way we've always done it," said no good leader, ever. - [Vala Afshar](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/537080571693105152)
* Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. - [Malcolm Gladwell](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/537075225352212480)
* You are not a team because you work together. You are a team because you trust, respect and care for each other. [Vala Afshar](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/536976229828952064)
* People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily - [Zig Ziglar](https://twitter.com/abt_programming/status/536549776687628289)
* "Surprise in movies and novels is good. Surprise in computer code is bad" - [Patrick Burns](https://twitter.com/abt_programming/statuses/534330650355306496)
* The most impressive people I know are almost never mean, and the meanest people I know are almost never impressive. - [Paul Graham](https://twitter.com/paulg/statuses/533813744128647169)
* Innovation does not require a plan, it requires courage / L'innovation c'est une désobéissance, pas un plan - [Pierre Pezziardi](https://twitter.com/vallettea/statuses/527815924070748160)
* The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated / On peut juger la grandeur et la valeur morale d'une nation à la façon dont elle traite ses animaux - [Gandhi](https://twitter.com/monde_biodi/statuses/544574581986840576)
* It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad - [Charles Eames](https://twitter.com/abt_programming/statuses/542409128274956288)
* Dealing with other people, that's the easy part. Dealing with yourself is a relentless task that only ends when you do. - [Jeff Atwood](https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/916539378398146560)
* Good design is not about making everything flexible. It's about making the right things flexible. - [John D. Cook](https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/02/18/what-to-make-flexible/)
* Being a good programmer is 3% Talent 97% Not being distracted by the Internet - [Programming Knot](https://twitter.com/PrototypeChain/statuses/539658036474691586)
* Good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun. - [Linux Torvalds](https://twitter.com/eBourgess/status/914557366380711938)
* Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures & their relationships. - [Linux Torvalds](https://twitter.com/RichRogersIoT/status/918989943074062336)
* Le bonheur, c’est de réaliser sa nature profonde | Happiness consists in living in accordance with our deeper nature, developing our personality so that we can enjoy life and the world with the richest sensibility we can. - [Frédéric Lenoir](http://www.sophrologie-chevalier.fr/en-savoir-plus/bonheur-cest-de-realiser-nature-profonde/)
* Don’t seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you will have a calm and happy life - Frédéric Lenoir
* [IMG] Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. - [Vala Afshar](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/561275884116918272/photo/1)
* Before cofounding GitHub I applied for an engineering job at Yahoo and didn’t get it. Don’t let other people discourage you. [Chris Wanstrath](https://twitter.com/defunkt/statuses/469607846527520768)
* Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. [Winston Churchill](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/winston_churchill)
* Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. [Winston Churchill](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/winston_churchill)
* Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. [Winston Churchill](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/winston_churchill)
* The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. [Winston Churchill](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/winston_churchill)
* We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. - Winston Churchill