David Heinemeier Hansson Quotes

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

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• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

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• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

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• I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

  

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• In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

  

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• There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

  

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• Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

  

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• What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.

  

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• For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

  

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• We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

  

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• 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