Quotes About Value

Work is not done when Development completes the implementation of a feature—rather, it is only done when our application is running successfully in production, delivering value to the customer.

In any value stream, there is always a direction of flow, and there is always one and only one constraint; any improvement not made at that constraint is an illusion." If

Paige might be able to stop working. But is it worth having to deal with

To mitigate these types of problems, we strive to reduce the number of handoffs, either by automating significant portions of the work or be reorganizing teams so they can deliver value to the customer themselves, instead of having to be constantly dependent on others.

By choosing carefully where and how to start, we are able to experiment and learn in areas of our organization that create value without jeopardizing the rest of the organization. By doing this, we build our base of support, earn the right to expand the use of DevOps in our organization, and gain the recognition and gratitude of an ever-larger constituency.

Broadly speaking, to acheive DevOps outcomes, we need to reduce the effects of functional orientation ("optimizing for cost") and enable market orientation ("optimizing for speed") so we can have many small teams working safely and independently, quickly delivering value to the customer

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness — as might be judged by certain standards — there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Sometimes we get challenges that we are not worth for.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

Just because there's a crack in something, doesn't mean you throw it away.

The key point is that, in contrast with the technology enthusiast, a visionary focuses on value not from a system's technology per se but rather from the strategic leap forward such technology can enable.

the key to getting beyond the enthusiasts and winning over a visionary is to show that the new technology enables some strategic leap forward, something never before possible, which has an intrinsic value and appeal to the nontechnologist.

For gold in phisik is a cordial,Therefore he lovede gold in special.

Greet prees at market maketh deere ware,And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

In der Mathematik ist die Kunst Fragen zu stellen wertvoller als Probleme zu lösen.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.