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in hive •  5 years ago 

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A witty saying proves nothing
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Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
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What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that
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The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create
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Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after.
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Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame
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Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you.
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give away the credit for all successes.
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Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
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Good coders code, great reuse.
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
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Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in
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All great things require great dedication.
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Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely
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repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've
often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some
projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess.
And some need a fresh face.
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We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it)
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Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying
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The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
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