It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand…

I realized that Cathy and I would both be adults someday, just like my sister and me. And dearest friends do not have to be alike. The words came to mind, 'How dare you try to impose your personality on her. Rejoice in your differences!

We can’t have it all or do it all. If we could, there would be no reason to evaluate or eliminate options.

The best way to start a new habit is to make it so easy that you can't say no.

All architectures become iterative because of unknown unknowns, Agile just recognizes this and does it sooner.

The Harvard psychologist Bob Kegan called Bridgewater “a form of proof that the quest for business excellence and the search for personal realization need not be mutually exclusive—and can, in fact, be essential to each other.

Level 4 — People DevelopmentLevel 4 can be summed up in one word: reproduction. Your goal at this level is to identify and develop as many leaders as you can by investing in them and helping them grow.

The biggest problem with employee theft is that it often leads you to make bad decisions about your business and your life. The emotions are so overwhelming that you tend to overreact. You can’t get back to making good business decisions until you take the emotions out of the process.

There is no 100 percent right solution. The picture is never complete. Leaders must be comfortable with this and be able to make decisions promptly, then be ready to adjust those decisions quickly based on evolving situations and new information.

Debunking the myths of commenting code - Good code is self-documenting: No matter how good the code is, it cannot capture the informal aspects of a module’s interface such as why a particular design decision was made, or the meaning of its result, hence the need for comments.