Quotes About Debt

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

Crypto-collateralized stablecoins have the advantages of decentralization and secured collateral. The drawback is that their scalability is limited. To mint more of the stablecoin, a user must necessarily back the issuance by an overcollateralized debt position.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The next signal I explain to Kelly is one I call loan-sharking: "He wanted to be allowed to help you because that would place you in his debt, and the fact that you owe a person something makes it hard to ask him to leave you alone.

breach between the old society of survival and the consumer society; getting into debt, always regarded as a burden and possibly a disgrace, was suddenly perfectly normal, even encouraged.

So you owe me." "Exactly. I pay in kisses." "Good thing I accept that currency.

She says I owe her." "And you always pay your debts? What kind of craziness is that?" "Some people would say it's honorable." "Some people are stupid.

I caught you, saved you from painting the ground with your organs. You owed me a favor, and I asked for a single day without bloodshed.' 'Yeah, but you didn't specify which day.' With that, Paris dismissed the angel.

technical debt' that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn't pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.

Left unchecked, technical debt will ensure that the only work that gets done is unplanned work!

You've just described 'technical debt' that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn't pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.

Ward Cunningham in 2003. He said, 'technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

Cagan notes that when organizations do not pay their "20% tax," technical debt will increase to the point where an organization inevitably spends all of its cycles paying down technical debt.

technical debt' is what creates hardship, toil, and reduces the agility of our software engineers,

I want to bring back the days when a developer could actually create value for someone who cares, easily and quickly," Cranky Dave says. "I want to build and maintain something for the long haul, instead of shipping the 'feature of the day' and dragging all this technical debt around.

achieving this greatness is never free. It requires focus and elevation of improvement of daily work, even over daily work itself. Without this ruthless focus, every simple system degrades over time, increasingly buried under a tundra of technical debt.

technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

you pay down technical debt as a part of daily work. It's a magnificent example of the First Ideal of Locality and Simplicity in our code and organizations.

To my surprise, Erik interrupts. "Well put, Bill. You've just described 'technical debt' that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn't pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.

While America's imperial power might degrade, power of this magnitude does not collapse quickly except through war. German, Japanese, French, and British power declined not because of debt but because of wars

I wanted to cut Hugh into pieces. I owed him for Mauro, my broken sword, and seven days in the hole. But Curran owed him for seeing me disappear, for finding out where I went, for running after me across half the country not knowing if I was still alive, and then for fighting his way to Mishmar only to find me half-dead. Curran had a much bigger score to settle.

More than 80 percent of participants at these community forums indicated it was very important or extremely important to have their dignity respected, preferences honored, pain controlled, and not to leave family with debt.

Lo envolvió en la red invisible de la culpabilidad y de las deudas de gratitud impagas.

The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.