The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a
man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a
janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.”
-- The little book of leadership
Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality
later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long
run.
-- Philip Greenspun
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last
recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control
outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will
always have the last word.
-- Nassim Taleb
Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some
of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic
engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the
driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating
rationalizations and excuses for our behavior.
-- Paul Buchheit
A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done
it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at
building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more
systems of that type.
-- Philip Greenspun
You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you
will always be a Terrible Programmer.
You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge
that you are still a Terrible Programmer.
-- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is
half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to
be.
-- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
-- Colin Powell
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The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a
man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a
janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.”
-- The little book of leadership
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button
finger.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality
later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long
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-- Philip Greenspun
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The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.
-- Elie Wiesel
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Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying
that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
-- Alanna
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In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
-- Albert Einstein
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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
-- Rush (Freewill)
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Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last
recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control
outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will
always have the last word.
-- Nassim Taleb
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If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines
produced but as lines spent.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
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Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any
application will ever need.
-- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992
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Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some
of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic
engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the
driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating
rationalizations and excuses for our behavior.
-- Paul Buchheit
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Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it
means facing the truth and then moving on.
-- George Leonard, Mastery.
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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is
obscure.
-- Hugh Kingsmill
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-- unknown
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The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own
ignorance.
-- DJ MacLean
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it.
-- Donald Knuth
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done
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-- Philip Greenspun
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The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.
-- J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ, 1709
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Omit needless words.
-- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)
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Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast,
than to make a fast program correct.
-- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/
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The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one.
-- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)
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You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you
will always be a Terrible Programmer.
You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge
that you are still a Terrible Programmer.
-- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)
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Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that
programmers.
-- Alexandru Vancea
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To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
-- Modern zen Poem
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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is
half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to
be.
-- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)
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C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time,
only few are really doing it.
-- unknown
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
-- Louis Pasteur
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