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Kent Beck: “If you’re having trouble succeeding, fail”

by Nivi on June 5th, 2008

watermelon-baby.jpgHere are the latest great quotes from our twitter feed (rss):

“Just about everything has a strike against it. It’s either already been done or it’s never been done.” – Seth Godin

“Silicon Valley is a place where ‘it’s never been done before’ is a compliment.” – Naval Ravikant

“You can’t build to sell. If you build to sell, you’re not building anything of sustained value.” – Craig McCaw

“Get good cofounders. You can’t change who you are, at least not in a short time.” – Paul Graham

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” – Jim Barksdale

“They assured us that lots of things were standard, but, boy, were the standards awful.” – Jim Cramer

And here are a few quotes from my personal twitter feed (rss)

“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.” – Antony Jay

“If you’re having trouble succeeding, fail.” – Kent Beck

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# Eli · Jun 6, 2008

I think it’s funny that for a post tittled “It’s never been done before”, you guys reused a picture from a previous post.

Oh the irony.

Anyway, Venture Hacks rocks…keep it up.

 

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