While you may be able to borrow time by writing quick and dirty code, you will eventually have to pay it back — with interest. Often this trade-off m… - Ben Horowitz

Move fast and break things Mark Zuckerberg believes in innovation and he believes there can be no great innovation without great risk.

whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.

Was the team now ignoring me? Had I yelled at them one time too many? The more I thought about it, the more I realized that while I had told the team “what” to do, I had not been clear about “why” I wanted them to do it. Clearly, my authority alone was not enough to get them to do what I wanted. Given the large number of things that we were trying to accomplish, managers couldn’t get to everything and came up with their own priorities. Apparently, this manager didn’t think that meeting with his people was all that important and I hadn’t explained to him why it was so important.