Quotes About Process

Programming is a lot like construction. Imagine a contractor building a house for you without a blueprint. Yikes! You might end up with a house that has 12 bathrooms, no windows, and a front door on the second floor. Plus, it probably would cost you 10 times the estimated price. Programming is the same way. Without a plan, you'll likely struggle through the process and waste time. You might even end up with a program that doesn't quite work.

The system isn't something you bring to the business. It's something you derive from the process of building the business.

Pay-for-performance will only raise costs if providers get higher pay for process compliance but do not have to compete on results.

The United States is in deficit on raw materials account, but is unwilling to limit its industrial expansion correspondingly. It is in surplus on farm products account, but is unwilling to limit its agriculture accordingly. The peoples of developing countries therefore are to be turned into the instrument through which the otherwise untenable U.S. economic process is perpetuated.

In a probabilistic environment, you are better served by focusing on the process by which you make a decision than on the outcome

Deliberate practice works when skill dominates, while a focus on process and probability is appropriate when luck is the greater force.

But understanding the role of the public sector in the co-production of economic output allows a more profound perspective. Taxation is the means by which economic actors pay the public sector for its contribution to the productive process. The orthodox model claims that reducing the share of taxation in overall economic output will tend to strengthen growth. If taxation is used productively by an active public sector, the opposite can be the case.

I don't like to write. But I love having written.

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

Everything in government seems to take longer than it should. My vetting process dragged on. Making sure the subsidies embedded in my Stanford mortgage did not violate conflict-of-interest rules took several weeks to resolve. Even though I already had a top secret security clearance, I had to get a new one to become ambassador. That

No minor-party candidate has ever won the presidency or, for that matter, even come close. For the most part, these ego-driven 'independent' adventures in electoral narcissism push the political process further away from their supporters' professed goals, rather than advancing the insurgent group's agenda or ideas.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

The outcome is a result of the integrity of the process.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

The lesson of the spiral is that every "thing" is not a noun but a process, a dynamic "energy event." The world resembles a whirlpool of transformation with which we can cooperate for our benefit.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Once beliefs are formed, the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which adds an emotional boost of further confidence in the beliefs and thereby accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive feedback loop of belief confirmation.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

One of my favorite retailers has a release process that rivals a NASA launch sequence.

More and more the picture of reality Bohm was developing was not one in which subatomic particles were separate from one another and moving through the void of space, but one in which all things were part of an unbroken web and embedded in a space that was as real and rich with process as the matter that moved through it.

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

The second type of uniquely human executive regulation is what we may call social self-regulation. In this case, the individual appropriates the perspectives or values of others to use as a standard in the self-regulatory process.

It was a process of suggesting, in throw-it-against-the-wall style, what the president might want, and hoping he might then think that he had thought of this himself

For Walsh, it was a daily process of managing an impossible task: almost as soon as she received direction from one of the three men, she would be countermanded by one or another of them.