"When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right."

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Source : "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 1, 2003.

Ward Cunningham

#Mistake Quotes #Trying Quotes #Might Quotes

“A man's house is his castle.”
“My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.”
“If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?”
“It just shows you have come prepared to play and ready to execute. It doesn't give you that much comfort when it's early and you still have another two and a half to three quarters to go. You better keep playing. But it is a positive, it gives you energy and it gives you a little boost like that.”
“Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.”
“I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.”
“My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.
“I just know of so many musicians who burn out because they go on tour and they have to play their one-hit song over and over and over and over again. And they are not moved by their own song. And then when you go and see them perform there's something off.”

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