Martin Fowler Bliki: Diversity: To deal with this, I need to relate another favorite story, this time a recent one. A prospective client of ours gave a talk that included some thoughts on race that seemed to come out of 1930’s Alabama. Just about everyone was offended, but the best reaction was from a young black analyst which I’ll paraphrase as: “When he says things like that I don’t want to walk away from this job in anger. Instead I want to work with this guy, to be in his face with my abilities and professionalism. People like this won’t change if no one is there to show them differently. People need to step up and be change agents even when its uncomfortable.”

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Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb:

It’s like the story of the centipede. The centipede was very good at walking with its hundred legs. It never spent a thought on just how it could walk. Until one day, when a big black bug asked the centipede “How can you manage to walk with all those feet? Don’t you find it hard to coordinate their rhythm?” The black bug already left, when the centipede was still sitting down, pondering how it could walk, wondering, and (for the first time in his life) even worrying a little bit. From that day on, the centipede couldn’t walk anymore.

So you better not think too much if you want to achieve something. And of course this is only half the truth, too…