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“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

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—Warren Buffett

“E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.”

“You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve”

“Archimedes is the boringest engine that we can build in a lot of sense.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”

—Warren Buffett

“It's a lot easier to build something bigger than smaller.”

“Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication […] No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don’t want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.”

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated”

“If you love testing, you should love shipping even more. It's the test of all tests.”

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”

—Barack Obama

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—Warren Buffett

“One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”