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Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.
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112 |
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Never underestimate the power of clever people to help others see the possibilities, to help them generate a feeling of faith, and to change behavior.
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112 |
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Engineers struggle with goal setting in two big ways. They hate crossing off anything they think is a good idea, and they habitually underestimate how long it takes to get things done.
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159 |
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Producing software is not like producing cars: it’s hard to accurately estimate how long different steps will take or what problems might arise.
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156 |
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It makes intuitive sense and jibes with experience that the estimation error early in a project is larger than the estimation error near the end of a project.
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203 |
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Most of the time, software development tasks take longer than estimated.
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203 |
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…the biggest wild card in estimate after estimate are the unknown unknowns…
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203 |
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You never want to make the mistake that [Columbo’s] suspects make, underestimating him.
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146 |
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The less intelligent we are in a particular domain, the more we seem to overestimate our actual intelligence in that domain.
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39 |
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The hiring success rate of managers has long been estimated at just 50%, which completely squares with the uncertainty involved.
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