Quotes About Constraints

Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.

I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently... have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

watching and witnessing history and then, despite the dangers and constraints and our human imperfections, recording it as honestly as we can.

Whose freedom, how exercised, how circumscribed and how defined?

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

Perhaps this was a concomitant of freedom: if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste. Perhaps

There always will be limits to growth. They can be self-imposed. If they aren't, they will be system-imposed.

Understanding layers of limits and keeping an eye on the next upcoming limiting factor is not a recipe for perpetual growth, however. For any physical entity in a finite environment, perpetual growth is impossible. Ultimately, the choice is not to grow forever but to decide what limits to live within.

Commenting on an early paper by the Nobel laureate Gary Becker, the economist James Duesenberry famously quipped that "economics is all about choice, while sociology is about why people have no choices.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects.

Driving exploration is critical, but knowing when to stop is also. Product development is exploring with a purpose, delivering value within a set of constraints. Frequent, timeboxed iterations compel the development and product teams and executives to make difficult tradeoff decisions early and often during the project. Feature delivery contributes to realistic evaluations because product managers can look at tangible, verifiable results.

The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects. Although constraints such as cost and time are important, they should be secondary to creating value for customers. All too often, we focus on what is easily measurable and ignore really important characteristics that are harder to quantify. Agile development attempts to change that bias and focus on the most important things, and value is at the top of that list.

Agile organizations must adhere to the same values as agile teams: • Delivering value over meeting constraints • Leading the team over managing tasks • Adapting to change over conforming to plans Executives and managers need to lead their organizations in living these values and taking actions based on them—and one of the critical areas on which they need to take action is measuring performance in ways that encourage their organizations to embrace agility.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Comedians have to entertain the audience within a stipulated time. It is not possible to explain what we intend to convey in a detailed manner. This can only be done in films where comedians are the protagonists.

It turns out that in any system, of these three characteristics—open, fast, stable—you can have only two.

One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.