Quotes page 3

Inspiration is preparation plus panic.

Kent Beck

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Thomas Edison

When you laugh, the world laughs with you. When you cry, you cry alone.

Korean proverb

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

J.P. Morgan

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Warren Buffett

There is no sense in talking about the solution before we agree on the problem, and no sense talking about the implementation steps before we agree on the solution.

Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag

Software development is a learning process; working code is a side effect.

Alberto Brandolini

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

Scientists generally agree that no theory is 100 percent correct. Thus, the real test of knowledge is not the truth, but utility.

Yuval Noah Harari

The only constant in life is change.

Heraclitus

Only the paranoid survive.

Andrew Grove

There is no sense in talking about the solution before we agree on the problem, and no sense talking about the implementation steps before we agree on the solution.

Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag

You know they say economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing? Well, programmers know the benefits of everything and the trade-offs of nothing.

Rich Hickey

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

Linus Torvalds

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Jim Rohn

The stock market is a device for transfering money from the impatient to the patient.

Warren Buffett

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

Trading is a fascinating game: chess, poker, and a video game rolled into one.

Alexander Elder