Howard G. Cunningham (Ward Cunningham) Quotes

I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

Howard G. Cunningham

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• Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Good
  • Body
  • Doing

• What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Reality
  • Perception
  • Designer

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Trust
  • Never

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Charity

• You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Forward

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Myself
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Good
  • Someone
  • Lyric

• Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Emotional
  • Better

• ... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.

  

  C. Wagner
  • People
  • World
  • May

• I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Reason
  • Bigs
  • Hopeless

• Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system.

  

  Elliot Morley
  • Business
  • Support
  • Environmental

• That was really strange, having to come up with a new surname [when my agent deemed my birth name too hard for people to remember]. After a long decision making process, me and my parents agreed on Lara because that was the name that sounded the most beautiful.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

  

  Howard G. Cunningham
  • Decision
  • Situation
  • Make