“They drilled that into you. They said, “This is what we’re teaching you is how to basically be a leader,” and that leadership meant being proactive, not being passive. It meant getting in, if you will, on the discussion. I got that. I got it. It made sense to me because, yeah, in the meeting, if you sit there and say nothing, probably no one pays attention to you. You won’t go anywhere in life.”
On being patient
Epigraph for the The Mythical Man Month:
Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to please you.
From Soul Position’s “Intro”:
Yo, now last year, a lot of people been comin’ up to me like
“Yo, Print, where’s the album at?”
“Homie, workin’ on that,” was my reply
Took my time with it though
Ain’t about to put no garbage out
Feel me?
"If we don’t have the very best products, uniquely suited to the markets that we serve, then we won’t win,” Whitman said. “We need to be a product company."
— http://m.zdnet.com/blog/btl/whitman-to-shareholders-hp-matters/72157
"Then they find out its human formed aliens that are really big headed monsters that used all the people in the small village into their snack burgers."
"It is very hard for middle management to add value"
— Bryan Cantrill, How to brew better software: The Monki Gras in London
"The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?"
"We have been taking our time. The general failure of everyone that’s tried to introduce a tablet outside of Apple” suggested Dell made a prudent choice, Felice said in an interview. “You will see us enter this market in a bigger way toward the end of the year. So we are not really deemphasizing it, we are really being very careful how we enter it. “When you are talking about PC, people are more focused on the hardware itself. When you are talking about the tablet or the smartphone, people are interested in the overall environment its operating in,” he added. “As we have matured in this, we are spending a lot more time in the overall ecosystem."
— Steve Felice, Dell plots late-2012 consumer tablet launch
