"We should be as careful of our words as of our actions." Cicero
Considering how to build better systems and how various languages can serve that end is a much better use of time than fighting language wars. Bjarne Stroustrup - http://www.research.att.com/~bs/blast.html C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. -Bjarne Stroustrup
Mulder saw her eyeing the other women with a touch of envy. Oh, he was attracted to them, but that was just the animal in him responding to their presence. His frontal lobes weren't involved at all. His mind loved Scully for her mind, his heart loved her for her heart, his body loved her for her body, and his soul loved her for her soul. Sometimes she just needed a little reminding. John Birt , _Carpe Diem_
Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. W. C. Fields
The most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen, or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. - Japanese Proverb
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are. - John Dryden, English poet
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charlie Brown
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I'm not a vegetarian because I like animals; I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants...
"It's not the one bullet with your name on it that you have to worry about; it's the twenty thousand-odd rounds labeled `occupant.'" --Murphy's Laws of Combat
A Platonic lover is a man who holds the eggshells while somebody else eats the omelette. - Crowninshield
It doesn't matter whom a man marries; he is sure to find, the next morning, he has married someone else. Sam Rogers Vs lbh pna ernq guvf lbh ernyyl bhtug gb trg bhg zber Guerrillas never win wars but their adversaries often lose them. -Charles Thayer
What is a supercomputer? 1) "A supercomputer is a device for converting a CPU-bound problem into an I/O bound problem." [Ken Batcher] 2) "A supercomputer is one that is only one generation behind what you really need." Neil Lincoln's definition. 3a) "Hardware above and beyond, software behind and below" 3b) A machine to solve yesterday's problems at today's speeds. -from the comp.parallel FAQ The human brain can only encompass what the human posterior can endure. Never underestimate the importance of sitting comfortably with good posture. Alex Woo Heilmeier's catachism for new research projects 1.What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon. 2.How it is done today and what are the limitations of current practice? 3.What's new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? 4.Who cares? If you are successful, what difference will it make? 5.What are the risks and the payoffs? 6.How much will it cost? How long will it take? 7.What are the midterm and final "exams" to check for success? Time Management List Goals Set Priorities Make Daily ``To Do'' List Ask: What Is The Best Use of My Time Now? Handle Paper Only Once Unclutter Space and Thinking DO IT NOW! Alex Woo
"Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows how to program large parallel machines." -- Seymour Cray (needs confirming source)
"Don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different or significantly different if you can... Every time you take a new approach, new ingredients, you increase risk. But it was my feeling, that the rewards would come often enough so that taking those kinds of risks would have a long-term benefit. And, I think they did during my career." -- Seymour Cray, 1994
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late." -- Seymour Cray @ CIA ~mid-1970
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Burke
When the ass was invited the wedding feast he said, 'They need more wood and water. Bosnian proverb
The fox condemns the trap, not himself. Blake
God will provide - ah, if only He would till He does so! Yiddish proverb
As he knew not what to say, he swore. Byron The parrots of Penance I.
I am the very model of a member of the faculty, Because I'm simply overcome with sentiments of loyalty. I daily think of reasons why I'm glad to be American, And thank the Lord I've always been a registered Republican. The thoughts I think are only thoughts approved by my community. I pledge allegiance to the flag at every opportunity. I haven't had a thing to do with Communist conspirators, And neither have my relatives, descendants or progenitors. I try to keep away from propositions controversial; I've no opinions social, economic, or commercial. And so you see that I must be, with sentiments of loyalty, The very perfect model of a member of the faculty. Chorus: And so you see that he must be, with sentiments of loyalty, The very perfect model of a member of the faculty. II. I'm qualified to educate in matters of heredity, Unsullied by the taint of any doctrinaire rigidity. I teach the Darwin theory with evaluation critical, Uninfluenced by dogmatists, religious or political. I understand the economic forces that have made us great, The system of free enterprise I do not underestimate. I'm well-equipped objectively to point out flaws in Marxist thought, Because I've never read his work and rest assured that I will not. I freely follow truth in ways which I am sure will satisfy The Boards of Regents, William Hearst, and Hoover of the FBI.
And so you see that I must be, with sentiments of loyalty, The very perfect model of a member of the faculty. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain
"The learned Fool writes his nonsense in better language, but 'tis still nonsense." B.Franklin 'Poor Richard Improved' (1754)
"Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury." - Jean de la Fontaine
Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. Mitch Radcliffe
"When you ask someone how their marriage is, there's only two answers you're probably going to hear. One is it's great, and two is it's over." -Steve Glaser
You will never improve unless you blame yourself for the troubles you have. Start thinking of what to do about it. R.G. Le Tourneau.
All of which is to say I was far from immune to her kisses, however casual. Robert Asprin, _Sweet Myth-tery of Life_
Marriage is a fine institution ... if one requires institutionalizing. S. Freud. Robert Asprin, _Sweet Myth-tery of Life_
Thus the task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees. Erwin Schrodinger
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. A. Lincoln
Experience informed him that if he was to be let off one punishment, in a moment more something worse was about to be awarded him. - Tanish Lee, "Night's Daughter, Day's Desire"
...Sharon and Carter became aware that this magic born of the struggle between their tarnished sensibilities and their unstained hopes was not something that would last. Soon they would have to confront a world devoid of magic...and they would win at love, or they would lose. And loss was probable, for love is an illusion with the fragility of glass and light, whose magic must be constantly be renewed...Sharon and Carter turned to one another, and though they were afraid of all that would come, the night began without error. -Lucius Shephard, "The Glassblower's Dragon"
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Richard Feynman, "The Value of Science"
"Veni, vidi, vici," Julius Caesar "
Reorganisation is a splendid method of producing illusion of progress whilst creating confusion, and demoralisation." Petronius Arbiter, AD60.
They were masters of words, when words could be spoken and arguments made with cool distance or casual cruelty; but their true emotions were too great for words alone ever to express them. -Marc Singer
"If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle," said Harriet severely. -Dorothy Sayers, "Strong Poison"
Consider this a thinking chick's flick, one with a brain, a heart and the courage to not always play it safe. Susan Wloszczyna
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research! Stephen E Mulholland
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream. Bern Williams You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. H. Ford
Life did not always or even normally grant one the wishes of the heart. Sometimes it came near, sometimes not very near at all. -Guy Gavriei Kay, a Song for Arbonne
Ignorant people are sure of the causes of everything. James Thorpe
There is no knowledge that is not power. Emerson
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. Jimmy Buffett
What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, if they whom Death had sundered did not meet again. Ellery Queen The Adventure of the Hollow Dragon
Most people have trouble talking when they have nothing to say. Though it rarely stops them, does it? Lawrence Block, With a smile for the Ending
"Education is not the filling of a bucket but the starting of a fire." W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright.
"A month in the lab will save three days in the library". "Thy rapier sharp wit woundeth me much. Mine eyes doth well up, my throat tighten. It strikest me like foulest fly be swatted away by the tail of behemoth of far away lands of africa, the petulant pachyderm. Help me, for I die now. Skewered verily like the suckling pig at the Michaelmas feast, slow roasting under yule log, yet fast dispatched from this weary world. I am crushed by this awesome mind, the likes of which has not been seen since ancient times. The hale philosophers of old, Aristotle and Plato, would blush in thy company, for the'st be not worthy to hold truck or court with the likes of thee. Thou leaveth their feeble intellects spinning wanly in the unsettled dust, to settle slowly, higgledy pigeldy... Away, away, I say, for I cannot bear it longer. Bury before my racked body can become cold and stiffened, or newly inhabited with those denizens of the underworld, the mealy worm." - Quintine Farquare - 'Tis pity to be witless' (1579) Act I, Scene 4
As practiced by computer science, the study of programming is an unholy mixture of mathematics, literary criticism, and folklore.
- B. A. Sheil, 1981
"Only the paranoid survive" -Andy Grove
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
"Second only, of course, to disinterested search for truth, no task is more pleasing to scholars than exposing the negligence, ignorance and stupidity of their fellows. To both these pleasures we now address ourselves" - Pooh and the Philosophers - John Tyerman Williams
Beware of companies that start writing checks and stop writing software. - Larry Ellison
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. - Dorothy Parker
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, for the people, by the people." -- Oscar Wilde
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." --Basho
"He has read everything, and, to his credit, written nothing." A J Raffles
Katalepsis: that derangement of the senses that comes when terror or anger usurp dominion of the mind. Our life is not a smoothly flowing stream, Sometimes I think that rapids wait at every bend, For us idyllic quiet is an idle dream Because we do not care that we offend. You are contrary, stubborn as a mule, My Raven, to my calmness you're a constant threat. Your antics make me lose my hard-won cool And then I say things that I soon regret. We fight, we make up, then we fight some more, But I'd not have it any other way, Dishonest meekness would enrage me more, Your frankness I will cherish every day. Should sparring be the price that pay we must, I'll pay it gladly for our loving trust. - Menshevik
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. -- Isaac Newton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. -- Brian K. Reed Speech and silence.
We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. -E.M. Cioran
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." Confucius (c.551-479 B.C.), Chinese philosopher.
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. " Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Baroness Karen Blixen), 1885-1962, Danish author.
"Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory." Warren Buffett on how the academic community regards his investment approach.
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Syrian-born American mystic poet and painter.
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too. George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind.
"We cannot tolerate the proliferation of this paperwork any longer. It is useless to fight the forms. We must kill the people producing them." Attributed to Vladimir Kabaidze, Director of the Ivanovo Machine Works near Moscow, in a speech before the annual Communist Party Congress, 1936.
"A wise man knows everything, a shrewd one everybody." a fortune cookie from Grand Chau Chow, a Chinese restaurant
"The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a blockhead." George Savile
For to know a person's name is not always to know the person's self. George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind.
Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more. Nobody, ever so beautiful or good, will make up for that one going out of sight. George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind.
"There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet." Noah Webster
"Jones said in a moment of war, the fear is so immense, you know you're going to die, and the fellow next to you is going to die. In that moment all your conditioning and personality disintegrates, all that's left is a profound love for the fellow standing next to you. . . . Out of this terrible horror of mankind, this quality of love can be expressed." - Nick Nolte
"Somehow his dream is told: somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas; sometimes with chisel on stone; sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music; but clearest and most permanent, in words." -Emerson
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself --- an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly." -Antisthenes
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." -Mother Teresa
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. " - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
People ask you for criticism, but what they really want is praise. - William Somerset Maugham, A.D. 1874-1965
On one occasion a student burst into his office. "Professor Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this F you've given me." To which Stigler replied, "I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the University will allow me to award."
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
Honi soit qui mal y pense. (Evil to him who evil thinks). Henry III
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. " - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
God is a verb. - Richard Buckminster Fuller, A.D. 1895-1983
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it! - anon.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. --Bertrand Russell.
Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place. -- Anonymous
"Most people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost for support instead of illumination when in reality they should be used like a dog uses a lamppost, look it over carefully from all angles and then piss on it."
"Wit is educated insolence. " - Aristotle (284-322 B.C.)
The Golden Rule of Flaming My flames will be witty, insulting, interesting, funny, caustic, or sarcastic, but never, ever, will they be boring.
"English is essentially an imprecise dialect of Java, without the object orientation." -- Julian Morrison
As the Twentieth Century draws to a close, we find it more and more difficult to mount a compelling defense of the idea of progress; but we find it equally difficult to imagine life without it. Lasch
A man said to the universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the universe The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation. - Stephen Crane
Simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life. Balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life. Work without pressure. Space for significance and beauty. Time for solitude and sharing. Closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life: life of the spirit, creative life, and the life of human relationships. - Anne M. Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
Must we love? That is a nonsensical question. It is like asking, "Must we breathe?" No, we do not have to breathe, and no, we do not have to love. But the consequences of both those decisions will be the same. - Richard Swenson, Margin
The inability of most people to feel the pain of others as if it were their own is what makes evil possible. Andrei Amalrik
Drink up, my friends, because tomorrow we ride at dawn. Lonesome Dove
People don't buy three-eighths-inch drill bits. People buy three-eighths-inch holes.
- Michael Porter
In America the absence of honest passion is a distinguishing feature of both professional wrestling and politics. - Murray Kempton
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.
- Thornton Wilder
We were cordial and merry to a high degree, but of what passed I have no recollection. James Boswell
A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. Finley Peter Dunne
I am, frankly, in a complete muddle as to what has happened, and have tried to write a chapter that anybody can use to prove anything they like.
- Agatha Christie, The Floating Admiral
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. W. Pitt
A scientist discovers what exists. An engineer creates what never was. von Karmon
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. -- Groucho Marx
We'll survive because we're basically completely insane. - Laurie Anderson
Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that we are `holding our position'. We're not `holding' anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy! We're going to hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass! --General George S. Patton, Jr.
The Librarian sits in a small, bright office, surrounded by stacks of things: things she's reading, things she's putting aside for people, things that make her think. (Inc., Jan 1999, p. 47)
It doesn't have to be right. It has to be provocative. Highsmith
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at the close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into thathat good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas
"A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age." --C.S. Lewis
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last. - P.D. James, _Original Sin_
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little, and do less. - P.D. James, _Original Sin_
We must learn to love life without ever trusting it. G.K. Chesterton
How hard it is to know ourselves and, when we do, how difficult to change. - P.D. James, _Original Sin_
"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is short, simple, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
Programming can be summed up easily: "Faster, Better, Cheaper: Choose 2."
Pratchett's law of Narrative Causality: if the plot requires any particular thing, the plot gets what it wants.
"But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart..." --Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince .
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly... After all, the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages. -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden, 1854)
"I have stopped reading Stephen King novels. Now I just read C code instead." Richard A. O'Keefe "
C program run -- Run program run -- Run, C program, Run! -- (please)"
Bumper Sticker "The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9." Erwin Dieterich erwin@cvt12.verfahrenstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de
"I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs." - Attributed to movie mogul Sam Goldwyn.
"'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer." -Joseph Sobran
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Russell, Bertrand
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. - Anthony Trollope
It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs. - H.L. Mencken
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-- that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.
- H.L. Mencken
The future has waited long enough; if we do not grasp it, other hands, grasping hard and bloody, will. - Adlai Stevenson
"Progress is a metaphor for merely walking along a road--very likely the wrong road." --G.K. Chesterton
'To err is human' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
- Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party
It always bothers me that, according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite amount of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space and no matter how tiny a region of time. How can all that be going on in that tiny space? Why should it take an infinite amount of logic to figure out what one tiny piece of time/space is going to do? --R. P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigor of spring, as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. . . . each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday. -- Bernard Berenson
"You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain.
"There are no "dumb decisions."
Everybody has a problem to solve. What makes for bad design is trying to solve problems in isolation, so that one particular force, like time or market or compatibility or usabilility, dominates." - Don Norman
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. (On Science) ...
[Men] who use terrorism, as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power. Helen MacInnes, The Salzburg Connection
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. G.K. Chesterton, The Spice of Life, 1936
If Microsoft-Windows is the solution; can we please have the problem back? - Niels Basjes
Logic is a method used to arrive at wrong conclusions with confidence! - chipstate@aol.com
Absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence. Carl Sagan
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch22
You really need to urgently learn the lesson that civilised debate demands that you recognise that others may sincerely hold opinions contrary to your own. Keith Willshaw
"I may refute them the way Marius did to the Roman patricians when he said that some who adorn themselves with other people's labor won't allow me to do my own labor." - Leonardo da Vinci, on commercial patronage of academia, /Linear Perspective/
Students are often in no position to judge "relevance" until long after the fact. Reader's Digest, June 2000
"With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die." - Horace
"I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious." - A. Einstein
What engineers bring to the table is sanity. Richard Sonnenfeldt Mollari
.. understand .. that I can never forgive your people for what they did to my world. My people can never forgive your people. But I .. can forgive .. you." G'Kar to Londo, The Fall of Centauri Prime
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Paul Erdos
"Have you noticed that, when we were young, we were told that "everybody else is doing it" was a really stupid reason to do something, but now it's the standard reason for picking a particular software package?" -- Barry Gehm
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. T Edison
"Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die." - Tim Steeves
He who has never loved, nor once looked deep down into his own lover's eyes, knows not the sweetest, loftiest religion of this earth. Herman Melville, Pierre
Unless you're influenced by my uniqueness, I'm not going to be influenced by your advice. Stephen Covey
When you can present your own ideas clearly, specifically, visually, and most important, contextually - in the context of a deep understanding of their paradigms and concerns - you significantly increase the credibility of their own ideas. Stephen Covey
That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
- Emerson
The farther you get from D.C. and the smug guys and dolls, the happier people are.
- Ben Stein
Come my friends. It is not too late to seek a newer world. For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset. And though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven. That which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To seek, to find, and not to yield. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden.
- Aubrey Beardsley
The hacker ethos: if it doesn't work, fix it; if it does work, take it apart.
The difference between people who exercise initiative and those who don't is literally the difference between night and day. I'm not talking about a 25 to 50 percent difference in effectiveness; I'm talking about a 5000-plus percent difference, particularly if they are smart, aware, and sensitive to others. - Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur
For humans, honesty is a matter of degree. Engineers are always honest in matters of technology and human relationships. That's why it's a good idea to keep engineers away from customers, romantic interests, and other people who can't handle the truth. - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
"Present to inform, not to impress; if you inform, you will impress. " - Fred Brooks
Only the educated are free -- Epictetus
Let Chaos storm, Let cloud shapes, swarm. I wait for form. -- Robert Frost
"You too have become addicted to the 20th century drug-of-choice: excuses." -Mr. Reimers
"I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive form of government!" "What form of government is that?" "A tautology." - Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
If you're a real engineer at heart, you won't be content just knowing how to fix it, keep it running. You'll want to know how it works - WHY it works - and how you can, maybe, make a better one. Ben Hutchins, "Symphony of the Sword"
In sum, we do not always think in words, but we do little thinking without them. M. Hunt, _The Universe Within_
To understand American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. Charles Krauthammer
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home." --James Michener
The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate. T.J. Watson, Sr.
Methinks I lied all winter when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more. John Donne
Detective stories contain a dream of justice. They project a vision of a world in which wrongs are righted, and villains are betrayed by clues they did not know they were leaving. A world in which murderers are caught and hanged, and innocent victims are avenged, and future murder is deterred. _Thrones, Dominations_ by Dorothy Sayers and Jill Walsh
A great marriage is not so much finding the right person as being the right person. Marabel Morgan
Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the field we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." --J.R.R Tolkien Lord of the Rings
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