Quotes About Responsibility

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

[T]he way he treats his body, you'd think he was renting.

I hold the very simpleminded view that everything is related to everything else-and that every one is related to everyone else, and that every species is related to every other. The only way out of this tissue of interrelations, it seems to me, is to stop paying attention, and to substitute something else-hallucination, greed, pride, or hatred, for example-for sensuous connection to the facts. I think it is not the world's task to entertain us, but ours to take an interest in the world.

If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.

You should not take a fellow eight years old And make him swear to never kiss the girls.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor goodCompensate bad in man, absolve him so:Life's business being just the terrible choice.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Turn on your heart light," who is going to magically heal us all. The only one who can turn on your heart light is you. The only one who can give your inner children healthy parenting is you. The only healer who can heal you is within you.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Why don´t you fix bad code when you see it? Your first reaction upon seeing a messy function is ´This is a mess, it needs to be cleaned' . Your second reaction is ´I'm not touching it!´. Beacuse you know that if you touch it you risk breaking it; and if you break it; it becomes yours

Professionals speak truth to power. Professionals have the courage to say no to their managers. How do you say no to your boss? After all, it's your boss! Aren't you supposed to do what your boss says? No. Not if you are a professional. Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But professionals are expected to say no. It's the only way you can really get anything done.

Professionals speak truth to power. Professionals have the courage to say no to their managers. How do you say no to your boss? After all, it's your boss! Aren't you supposed to do what your boss says? No. Not if you are a professional. Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But professionals are expected to say no. Indeed, good managers crave someone who has the guts to say no. It's the only way you can really get anything done.

Whatever else a TODO might be, it is not an excuse to leave bad code in the system.

If we all checked-in our code a little cleaner than when we checked it out, the code simply could not rot.

We are confidently commanding, in precise detail, the behaviors of a machine that could otherwise do incalculable damage. And so, programming is an act of supreme arrogance.

It is no longer sufficient that every programmer does what is right in their own eyes. Some disciplines, standards, and ethics will come. The decision before us today is whether we programmers will define them for ourselves or have them forced upon us by those who don't know us.

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do