Quotes
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Shakespeare
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto von Bismarck
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Doug Linder
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.
Richard E. Pattis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.
Laura Pedersen
Best Bet
A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.
Gregory Berns
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.
Marcus Buckingham
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Malcolm Gladwell
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”.
Isaac Asimov
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Cecil B. DeMille
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor Frankl
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Roskin
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
At the seashore, between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are now facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenship in the physical and digital worlds. Our windows to the digital world have been confined to flat rectangular screens and pixels, or 'painted bits.' While our visual senses are steeped in the sea of digital information, our bodies remain in the physical world. The vision of Tangible Bits is to provide seamless coupling between these two very different worlds of bits and atoms.
Hiroshi Ishii
The 7 habits of highly hngineered people:
- they will be selfish in their generousness, and they will attempt to look generous in their selfishness
- blindness improves their vision
- they’ll not only bite the hand that feeds them, but they’ll bite their own hand
- they will try very hard to maintain the image that they care not at all about their image
- they will keep fixing what’s not broken until it’s broken
- i didn’t answer incorrectly, you just asked the wrong question
- consider absence of criticism a complimentPo Bronson
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
Eric S. Raymond
The biggest money is in the smallest sales.
Kevin Laws
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
Vannevar Bush
As We May Think, 1945
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryū Suzuki
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.
Émile Chartier
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
Lin Yutang
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyère
Les Caractères
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The slowest person unless he does not lose the sight of the goal, is faster than the one who wanders aimlessly.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Code without tests is broken by design.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.
Kurt Cobain
From a virtual existance, to a devoid reality.
BPS
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Frederick William Robertson
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard Shaw
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
George Bernard Shaw
The most important thing about having goals is having one.
Geoffrey F. Albert
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George A. Sheehan
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain
Success doesn’t come to you – you go to it.
Marva Collins
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil Keane, Eleanor Roosevelt
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren Bennis
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a mistake.
Frank Wilczek
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Many a false step was made by standing still.
Timothy Ferriss
The 4-Hour Workweek
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Richard Branson
Remeber this: Impatience is the mother of invention.
Yoko Kajihara
A Japanese Schoolgirl
A news reporter asked: "So, billionaire Michael Dell. Any advice for getting rich?"
He replied: "It's not easy but it's simple."Michael Dell
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark Twain
Enjoy anything pleasurable while you can feel it. It won't last long. That's the nature of pleasure.
Yoko Kajihara
A Japanese Schoolgirl
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Jerry Rice
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.
Jason Fried
Remote: Office Not Required
As for study, did not our wise teacher teach us that learning was of two kinds: the one kind being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?
George Samuel Clason
The Richest Man in Babylon
Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.
Elizabeth Green
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
"What day is it?" asked Pooh.
"It’s today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.Winnie-the-Pooh
Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer
Do You pilot Eva just for the praise of others?
No, I don't need anybody's approval but my own!Asuka Langley
Neon Genesis Evangelion
This is the tragedy of people possessed by Eva.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.
Unknown
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
William G.T. Shedd
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Dreams do come true for those who dare to believe in themselves.
Bryant McGill
Smile, one smile makes two.
Unknown
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone having a good fucking laugh.
Chuck Palahniuk
MH: Have I gone mad?
AK: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.Alice in Wonderland
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”
Dr. Seuss
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.
Mandy Hale
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
Lolly Daskal
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
Gail Devers
Never frown when you're sad because you never know who may be falling in love with your smile.
Christina Phan
If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.
Miyamoto Musashi
Life is so much brighter when we focus on what truly matters.
Unknown
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.
Steve Wozniak
iWoz
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.
Unknown
A great future doesn’t require a great past.
William Chapman
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
The reality is that no one is too old, too smart, or too successful to learn something new.
John C. Maxwell
Winning with People: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
The business of the wise man is to be happy.
Samuel Johnson
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Danielle LaPorte
I think by knowing who we are as people and being ourselves, we can start making the world better.
Gretchen Rubin
Exceptions... allow error handling to be organized cleanly in a central or high-level place within the program structure.
Doug Hellmann
Python Exception Handling Techniques
The best moments I once lived are the ones I absolutely forgot to take pictures of.
Unknown
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
No Matter how it looks at first, it’s always a people problem.
Gerry Weinberg
The Second Law of Consulting
"If you asked Elon how long it would take to do something, there was never anything in his mind that would take more than an hour," Ambaras said. "We came to interpret an hour as really taking a day or two and if Elon ever did say something would take a day, we allowed for a week or two weeks."
Ashlee Vance
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Musk sometimes let them use his private jet. "It carried six people," Mueller said. "Well, seven if someone sat in the toilet, which happened all the time."
Ashlee Vance
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not bad thing.
Ruth Ozeki
Oliver, A Tale for the Time Being
A moment is a very small particle of time. Is is so small that one day is made of 6,400,099,980 moments.
Ruth Ozeki
Jiko Yasutani, A Tale for the Time Being
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease
Naguib Mahfouz
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun.
Larry Wall
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert Coveyou
When I see patterns in my programs, I consider it a sign of trouble. The shape of a program should reflect only the problem it needs to solve. Any other regularity in the code is a sign, to me at least, that I'm using abstractions that aren't powerful enough - often that I'm generating by hand the expansions of some macro that I need to write.
Paul Graham
I'm a big haymaker in a title fight.
I'm a cute black kitten with a nasty bite.
I'm an action double-feature on a Friday night!
I'm me!Phineas and Ferb
"I'm Me" by Vanessa Doofenshmirtz
Life is short. Do big things.
Robin Sharma
The design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design.
Richard P. Gabriel
The rise of Worse is Better
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
The Internet is good for letting off steam, but it can also be used to create new fires. > The danger we face in the future is that it will be far easier to be against something than for it.
Lee Hsien Loong
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows
Ralph S. Marston Jr.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.
George Lucas
What's the reason we're not even in the game? Why can't we follow our goal and live our dreams? There are many answers to those questions, but the most simple one is that we're just not really trying.
Fred Juliusson
Get Going! Life is Short!
It's a Secret of Adulthood: Do good, feel good.
Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
There is an 'I' in 'happiness'.
Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy.
One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Gerard Way
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
Thomas Paine
Conventions are good if they are helpful.
Bill Karwin
SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald Runsfeld
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
John von Neumann
Eighty percent of software work is intellectual. A fair amount of it is creative. Little of it is clerical.
Robert L. Glass
The best - maybe the only? - real, direct measure of 'innovation' is change in human behavior.
Stewart Butterfield
Code is easy, people are hard. It often takes the best engineers the longest to realize this.
L. Jackson
Startup
Life is short.
Smile while you still have teeth.Mallory Hopkins
Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice.
Unknown
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
Casey Neistat
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.
John Doerr
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.
Eric Ries
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
Reid Hoffman
The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
Eric Ries
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
Trust is like the air we breathe. When it is present, nobody really notices. But when it's absent, everybody notices.
Warren Buffet
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
I thought I was pretty cool until I realized that plants can eat the sun and poor out air.
Jim Bugg
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou
Live and die by documentation.
Matthew Ginnard
What comes and goes within that innocent pair of eyes?
This is Shirase Akira, a rogue free programmer; a man who possesses a briliant mind.
While he is known as a legendary hacker, few people know of his true identity.
What he wanted, what he gained, and what he had seen in the infinite outskirts of the Internet.
What he seen within the virtual and true images behind his code.
People called him "Battle Programmer Shirase" ...Battle Programmer Shirase
Creators newer follow.
Unknown
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Jorge Luis Borges
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
H. James Harrington
The very first thing an entrepreneur does with a new company is to design the T-shirt.
Unknown
The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
Robert Kiyosaki
When at Rome do as the Romans do.
Unknown
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Jalaluddin Rumi
If you want something you've never had,
You must be willing to do something you've never done.Thomas Jefferson
Never before have we had so much opportunity, and yet never have we felt so powerless to grasp it.
Taylor Pearson
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
A job is an act of following the operating system someone else created.
Entrepreneurship is connecting, creating, and inventing systems - be they business, people, ideas, or processes.Taylor Pearson
The End of Jobs
Information wants to be free.
Stewart Brand
I think when people are dancing on the edge of failure and they're void over there, but they keep moving forward, that's when we feel alive as people.
Seth Godin
Startup School
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Roy Amara
You should be more excited about Monday than you are about Friday. If that's not the case, there's a good chance things aren't going to work out.
Dan Norris
The 7 Day Startup
There are only two kinds of projects: they works and their code is beautiful.
Unknown
My daily routine: wake up, be awesome, go back to sleep.
Unknown
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
David Allen
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Harrington Emerson
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
Mark Van Doren
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
David Allen
It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Freeman Dyson
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Will Rogers
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin.
Stephen Bayne
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.
Robin Sharma
The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari
Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.
Isaac Pitman
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
3-dimensional washing machine. Fully automatic, completely useless.
Tenchi Muyou! GXP
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Osho
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds
I'd rather be a looser than a sucker.
Unknown
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
Alan Kay, in the interview with Dr Dobb's Journal (2012)
I have not failed, I've just found 10000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
If eveything is under control, you are going too slow.
Mario Adretti
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
General Patton
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.Elbert Hubbard