Quotes About Constraints

Even a world leader only has 24 hours in a day!

Per un attimo penso di non risponderle. Alla fine però lo faccio. Magari non sembrerà granché coerente, ma cerco di spiegare che invidiavo Uman perché sapeva spezzare i vincoli che la vita ci impone. Perché sapeva essere quello che voleva e se ne fregava di cosa gli altri pensavano di lui. Che conoscere Uman mi aveva fatto capire quanto ero diventata prevedibile.

customers do not need scope. They need to have business goals accomplished within some constraints of time and cost.

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

keep the constraints of the problem visible

Trying to force a system to work beyond its capacity invariably causes turbulence and slows things down.

designing the effort to fit the constraints, rather than computing the constraints from the design, is absolutely the most effective way to achieve reliable delivery.

Start with the valid constraints of the system, and then design the system to fit within those constraints.

Because, within the structure of the rules, you need to be free.

it doesn't necessarily take genius to spend resources . . . it does, though, to work within the resource constraints you're given.

relying on slack resources or ignoring constraints not only stifles creative thinking, but also breeds Overthinking.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.

Most of us cherish the notion of free choice, but our choices are constrained by the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age.

Academic freedom: It's great, as long as you don't use it."

o espaço nunca é tão urbanizado que não se acabe por descobrir um local imprevisto onde o tempo se liberta dos constrangimentos normais

la civilización se construye sobre la represión de los deseos individuales.

We value money because to a certain extent it liberates us from the constraints of life by making it possible to have free time to do in it what we want.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

There is no free lunch.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

conversations each year with fellow participants confirmed my hunch: the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power. The reactions to my probing always pointed in the same direction: power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.

The previous holders of these jobs not only dealt with fewer challengers and competitors, but they also had fewer constraints—in the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny—on using the power they had.

los micropoderes están limitando las opciones disponibles para los megaactores