David Heinemeier Hansson Quotes

Denmark, Programmer
October 15, 1979

David Heinemeier Hansson (also known to the Ruby programming language and automobile racing communities as DHH) is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm Basecamp.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Years
- Program
- Twenty
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Worry
- Planning
- Tomorrow
Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

David Heinemeier Hansson
There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Nothing
- Realizing
- Cash
When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Ideas
- Truly
- Sparks
Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Money
- Years
- Facebook
If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Idea
- Working
- Wrong

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Secret
- Stuff
- Strength
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

David Heinemeier Hansson
- Success
- Years
- Working