Rands Quotes

A milestone is less date and more definition.

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

A toxic person kills, and by kills I mean totally destroys teamwork.

World, you are beautifully drest.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.

Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.

If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world

Your work speaks for you.

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.