Quotes About Progress

I know in another decade or two I'm going to have to get used to the idea of reading without paper in my hands, but I'm going to be making that trip kicking and screaming. Maybe that sounds stubborn, but my relationship with the printed word is the longest one I've ever had and I'm not ready to quit on it yet.

Once again, I can provide ample scientific—" "Yes, I know. But understand that at least twenty percent of the people reporting to me, think wireless internet access is witchcraft.

Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don't have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they already do. Knowledge accumulates, so it can increase. Scientists and engineers know this, but artists, authors, and philosophers keep trying to start over from ground zero in the humanities. Thus, they don't really progress—they become primitive.

When you come before the Lord, it is not necessary that you think upon the Lord. It is only necessary that you continue in your progress.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. Patricia Bourque

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

Practice creates habits, and habits create mastery of any process or skill.

until code is in production, no value is actually being generated, because it's merely WIP stuck in the system.

repetition creates habits, and habits are what enable mastery.

Left unchecked, technical debt will ensure that the only work that gets done is unplanned work!

Punishing failure and "shooting the messenger" only cause people to hide their mistakes, and eventually, all desire to innovate is completely extinguished.

By relentless and constant experimentation in their daily work, they were able to continually increase capacity, often without adding any new equipment or hiring more people.

A lot of what drives me and others working in this space is the knowledge that, whatever your constraints, we can always do better, and the desire to help people on their journey.

Remember, outcomes are what matter—not the process, not controls, or, for that matter, what work you complete.

the Third Way focuses on creating a culture of continual learning and experimentation. These

In order to be able to know if we are making progress toward our goal, it's essential that everyone in the organization knows the current state of work. There

what's most important is that the information we display is up to date, and that we constantly revise what we measure to make sure it's helping us understand progress toward our current target conditions.

Are we playing to win and to establish the technical supremacy we need to keep up with what the business needs, or do we just keep limping along, shackled to things built decades ago, and tell our business leadership to throw in the towel and stop having good ideas?

Ward Cunningham in 2003. He said, 'technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

They also knew that until code is in production, no value is actually being generated, because it's merely WIP stuck in the system.

In order for a field or discipline to progress and mature, it needs to reach a point where it can thoughtfully reflect on its origins, seek out a diverse set of perspectives on those reflections, and place that synthesis into a context that is useful for how the community pictures the future.

Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.

The flow of work goes in one direction only: forward. Create a system of work in it that does that. Remember, the goal is single-piece flow.

any improvement not made at the constraint is just an illusion, yes?