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Quotes About Implementation

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Information without execution is poverty.
~ Tony Robbins
When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
~ Stephen Covey
A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.
~ John C. Maxwell
An idea without action is like a song without vocal.
~ Corine Timmer
One lesson we learned the hard way after years of NetBeans API development is, "Don't put setter methods in the true API." By "true API," we mean the interfaces that must be implemented to provide something. If setter methods are needed at all—and usually they aren't—they belong only in the convenience base classes.
~ Jaroslav Tulach
So it's reasonable to ask, "Is there actually any reason to use abstract classes?" The short answer is "No." Abstract classes in an API are suspicious and often indicate an unwillingness to invest more time in the proper API design. The longer answer is, "Well, there might be reasons to use abstract classes in APIs after all.
~ Jaroslav Tulach
The basic problem lay in the perception that an API is something that people call and an SPI is something that people implement.
~ Jaroslav Tulach
Culture is action, not words.
~ Jason Fried
Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The original pitch idea is such a small part of a business that it's almost negligible. The real question is how well you execute.
~ Jason Fried
It's tempting for people to obsess over tools instead of what they're going to do with those tools.
~ Jason Fried
The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.
~ Jason Fried
If you decide you absolutely must get together, try to make your meeting a productive one by sticking to these simple rules: Set a timer. When it rings, meeting's over. Period. Invite as few people as possible. Always have a clear agenda. Begin with a specific problem. Meet at the site of the problem instead of a conference room. Point to real things and suggest real changes. End with a solution and make someone responsible for implementing it.
~ Jason Fried
Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea. And everyone's got one of those.
~ Jason Fried
Tener la idea de eBay no tiene nada que ver con ir y crear eBay. Lo que importa es lo que haces, no lo que piensas o planeas.
~ Jason Fried
Before you can implement radical change, you have to let go of the things that will destine your attempts for failure, and make letting go a vital part of your culture
~ Jason Jennings
He created the laws and principles—sowing and reaping, cause and effect and the free will of humans—that govern the earth. We, however, implement these principles and determine much of what we reap and experience.
~ Dutch Sheets
We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.
~ Jay Nixon
Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.
~ Leonid Hurwicz
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
~ Barbara Jordan
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
~ Jack Dangermond