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Words worth returning to — on theology, leadership, engineering, wisdom, craftsmanship, and work.

There is not one square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: Mine.
Abraham Kuyper · Inaugural address, Free University of Amsterdam, 1880
TheologyWork
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth · Structured Programming with go to Statements
EngineeringWisdom
There are no little people and no little places, important only to make show, or to be a moving stair to fame; but everywhere our life touches other lives.
Francis Schaeffer · No Little People
TheologyWisdom
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
Linus Torvalds · The Cathedral and the Bazaar
EngineeringWork
Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do.
Dorothy L. Sayers · Why Work?
CraftsmanshipWork
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
WisdomLeadership
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
Richard Hamming · You and Your Research
EngineeringWisdom
Work is not a necessary evil, or something to escape, but part of what it means to be a full human being.
Timothy Keller · Every Good Endeavor
TheologyWork
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
EngineeringCraftsmanship
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
LeadershipWork
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig · Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
CraftsmanshipWisdom
Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank.
Proverbs 22:29
TheologyCraftsmanship