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"The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise" - Edsger Dijkstra
"You have to say to yourself "I don't know what I'm doing. We, as a field, don't know what we're doing. We don't know what programming is, we don't know what computing is, we don't even know what a computer is." And once you truly understand that, once you truly believe that then you're free, and you can think anything." - Bret Victor
"Programming is largely more about thinking than it is about writing code."
"Life is a series of building, testing, changing and iterating." - Lauren Mosenthal
"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." - unknown programmer
"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple." - Grady Booch
"If computer science fundamentals are so important why do I only think about them during interviews?"
"Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case." - Francis Glassborow
"The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast." - Joshua Bloch
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso
"Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work." - Rodney Brooks
"Good code is its own best documentation." - Steve McConnell
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." - Phil Karlton
"Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code." - Ellen Ullman
"No amount of testing can prove a software right. A single test can prove a software wrong." - Amir Ghahrai
"The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself." - Alan Cooper
"Today, most software exists, not to solve a problem, but to interface with other software." - Ian Angell
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V. Berard
"It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it. It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free." - Steve McConnell
"Knowing when not to code is possibly the most important skill a programmer can learn." - The Art Of Readable Code
"Looking at code you wrote more than two weeks ago is like looking at code you are seeing for the first time." - Dan Hurvitz
"Unless in communicating with a computer one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result." - Alan Turing
"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry." - Henry Petroski
"Shipping beats perfection." - Unknown
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Robert Cringely
"If having a coffee in the morning doesn't wake you up, try deleting a table in a production database instead." - Juozas Kaziukenas
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler, 2008
"One person's 'paranoia' is another person's 'engineering redundancy.'" - Marcus J. Ranum
"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer." - Bill Gates
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson
Atwood's Law: "Any application that can be written in javaScript will eventually be written in javaScript." - Jeff Atwood
"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming. Testing is the treatment." - Kent Beck
"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
"Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can’t write any code whatsoever." - Jeff Artwood
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." - Doug Linder
"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." - Brian Kernighan
"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it." - Grace Hopper
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." - Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth
"A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature." - James P. MacLennan
"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." - Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Even perfect program verification can only establish that a program meets its specification. Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification." - Fred Brooks
"An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect. The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed." - Datamation
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" - Brian Kernighan
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan, co-creator of the C language
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Eric S. Raymond
"The last bug isn't fixed until the last user is dead." - Sidney Markowitz
"Today's surveillance is extremely stealthy. If a person was following you all day, writing down what you are doing, of course you would care. But the problem today is, most people don't see the person following them."
"There is no cloud, just other people's computers"
"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards." - Gene Spafford
"Security is always excessive until it's not enough." - Robbie Sinclair
"Mathematics requires a small dose, not of genius, but of an imaginative freedom which, in a larger dose, would be insanity." - Angus K. Rodgers
"Fractals are shapes with a non-integer dimension"
"She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe." - Ted Chiang
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - John von Neumann
"Geometry without algebra is dumb! Algebra without geometry is blind!" - Hestenes
"Compounding is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time." - Albert Einstein
"A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody!" - Donald Knuth
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"It is the simplest version of the idea that sticks." - Christopher Nolan
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
"If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules."
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Steve Jobs
"You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people" - Charles Eames
"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
"Create something today even if it sucks." - Unknown
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein
"Good ideas are always crazy until they're not." - Larry Page
"Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate." - Betty Buckley
"Balance is not something you find, it's something you create." - Jana Kingsford
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Apple Computers
"Fear leads to self-doubt which is the worst enemy of creativity." - David Ogilvy
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso
"As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat." - Dr. Eric Thomas
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." - John Muir
"Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity." - Christopher Zeeman
"The amateur waits for inspiration. The professional knows that it will come after he starts."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"One man or woman with courage is a majority." - Unknown
"A hero is one who knows how to hang on for one minute longer." - Norwegian proverb
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edit Wharton
"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong." - Mandy Hale
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"A champion is defined not by their wins, but by how many times they recover when they fall." - Serena Williams
"If you don't like where you are, change it. You're not a tree." - Jim Rohn
"It is not about your daily progress, it is about progress daily." - Quincy Larson
"Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, which is why we call it the present." - Bil Keane
"By doing what you love you inspire and awaken the hearts of others." - Satsuki Shibuya
"Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it." - Tim Fargo
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations." - Unknown
"A person is but the product of their thoughts. What they think, they become." - Mahatma Gandhi
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you." - Lao Tzu
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
"Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else." - Sara Blakely
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
"It can be extremely motivating to be surrounded by other like-minded students, and the type of inspiration you take in is more direct than if you get everything from a book or a video." - David Tromholt
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk
"Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it." - Unknown
"Never give up. Never let things out of your control dictate who you are." - Unknown
"Live your dream, and share your passion." - Holstee Manifesto
"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." - Joseph Campbell
"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly." - Oprah Winfrey
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something." - Barack Obama
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work." - Stephen King
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience." - Paulo Coelho
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." - Walt Disney
"Tough times don't last; tough people do." - Gregory Peck
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher
"The universe doesn't allow perfection." - Stephen Hawking
"In matters of style swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Unknown
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them." - Elbert Hubbard
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within." - Maya Angelou
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
"To escape criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
"Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities." - Dale Carnegie
"Bravery is the solution to regret." - Robin Sharma
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve
"Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself." - Pat Summitt
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C. S. Lewis
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." - Neale Donald Walsch
"Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey
"Don't let the success of others discourage you. Let it inspire you." - Unknown
"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use." - Ruth Gordon
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow, will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"Light tomorrow with today." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"What makes you different or weird, that's your strength." - Meryl Streep
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new." - Dan Millman
"Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come." - Mario Quintana
"Light tomorrow with today." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Alva Edison
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Unknown
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther
"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too." - Dr. Seuss
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu
"What are the most powerful words in the universe? The ones you use to talk to yourself." - Karen Salmansohn
"All things are difficult before they are easy." - Chinese Proverb
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." - William Faulkner
"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution." - Albert Einstein
"You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it." - Stephen Covey
"If you want to master something, teach it." - Richard Feynman
"Learning is an experience, everything else is just information." - Albert Einstein
"Do the simple thing first."
"Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. This improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing you know that… you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve." - Elon Musk
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates
"It's not about having time, it's about making time."
"Focus is a matter of deciding what not to do." - John Carmack
"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?"
"Show, don't tell"
"You don't remember the work, you remember the exhilaration." - Robert Herjavec
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
"I am reminded of the story of the great French Marshal Lyautey, who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred years. The Marshal replied, In that case, there is no time to lose, plant it this afternoon." - John F. Kennedy
"If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results" - Isaac Newton
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
"Let's go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday." - Steve Jobs
"If everything is under control, you're going too slow." - Mario Andretti
"Mistake only stays a mistake if you don't learn from it"
"The grass isn't greener on the other side, it's greener where you water it."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become."
"Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day." - Jim Rohn
"Nobody is the boss. The project is the boss."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none." - Lois Lowry
"A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot." - Joe Vitale
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu
"Consistency over Quantity"
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
"Try and fail, but don't fail to try." - Stephen Kaggwa
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." - Suzy Kassem
"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up." - J.M. Power
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
"Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds." - Tom Peters
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
"You must expect failure as part of your journey of success, failure and success go hand in hand, you cannot have one without the other." - Richard Parkes Cordock
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up." - Laurie Notaro
"Most people quit because they look how far they have to go, not how far they have come." - Anonymous
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself." - Roy T. Bennett
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage." - Dale Carnegie
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." - Groucho Marx
"Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do." - Ella Fitzgerald
"There are always limits, and there are always opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our attitude and our actions." - Seth Godin
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
"You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination." - Jimmy Dean
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." - unknown
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
"Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. - Zig Ziglar
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu
"If I had to chop down a tree in 6 hours, I'd spend the first 4 hours sharpening my axe." - Abraham Lincoln
"Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus." - Robin Sharma
"Always focus on how far you've come, not how far you have to go." - Anonymous
"Rich people buy things that make them more money; poor people buy big screen TV's and cars" - Robert Kiyosaki
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Keep moving forward. One step at a time." Unknown
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
"Success isn't about being the best. It's about always getting better." - Behance 99U
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar
"It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin." - Robin Sharma
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
"It was about relationships, first and foremost. If people like you, they want you to succeed. If they want you to, they will help you succeed. It has to be genuine."
"Learn by doing: less theory, more results" - Liang Yuxian Eugene
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality." - Malala Yousafzai
"Expect great things, and great things will come." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Success isn't owned. It is leased, and rent is due everyday." - JJ Watts
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Until you cross the bridge of your insecurities, you can't begin to explore your possibilities." - Tim Fargo
"Don't give your past the power to define your future." - Unknown
"We grow fearless when we do the things we fear." - Robin Sharma
"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." - Arnold Palmer
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
"Keep your goals away from the trolls." - Unknown
"Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting." - John C. Maxwell
"Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee
"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." - Unknown
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." - Peter Drucker
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"Soon is not as good as now." - Seth Godin
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose." Unknown
"Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying." - Amelia Earhart
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." - Pele
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi
"You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." - Martin Luther King
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." - Steve Jobs
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
"Arise, Awake and Stop not until the goal is reached." - Swami Vivekananda
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." - Julie Andrews
"Knowledge means knowing where it's written down." - Anonymous
"Never memorise something that you can look up." - Albert Einstein
"An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialised knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others." - Napoleon Hill
"The wise warrior avoids the battle." - Sun Tzu
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"Study without devotion damages the brain" - Leonardo da Vinci
"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry its progress, ignorance its end." - Anonymous
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway
"I leaned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." - Richard Feynman
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice" - Donny Miller
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do." - M. E. Porter
"Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." - Alan Bennett
"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." - Carl Sagan
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." - Herbert Spencer
"We cannot teach people anything. We can only help them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei
"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new." - Dalai Lama
"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential." - Liane Cordes
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points." - Alan Kay
"There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences." - Ellen Ullman
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." - Lao Tzu
"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself." - Oprah Winfrey
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca
"Make the most of the best and the least of the worst." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin
"Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions." - Marcus Aurelius
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of our desire to understand." - Neil Armstrong
"Ask how something can be done rather than say it can't be done." - Bo Bennett
"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither." - Alan Cohen
"Know your body, know your mind, know your substance, know your source." - Erowid
"Those who know how to learn... know enough." - Henry Adams
"By seeking and blundering we learn." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"the highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer." - Jacob Bronowski
"The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life." - Confucius
"Play is the highest form of research." - Albert Einstein
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty." - Mark Twain
"Don't let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks." - Dr Roopleen
"The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities." - Edsger Dijkstra
"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you're dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." - Alan Watts
"For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Alfred D. Souza
"People have a lot invested in this ride." - Bill Hicks
"When you change yourself you change the world." - Gojira
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Anxiety's a funny thing. A simple change in perspective and it's just gone. But will it stay gone? That's always the question." - Anonymous
"Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." - Zen Proverb
"The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." - Gandhi
"Learn to love and admire the right people, live or dead. - Unknown
You often cannot control your thoughts, but you can control your actions. - Unknown
"He who fears death is a slave of life." - Anonymous
"The more afraid you are the more power your fear has." - Anonymous
"Once you realise what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense." - Anonymous
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." - Chinese proverb
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." - Mark Twain
"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." - Steve Jobs
"You can't be free if you judge people" - Matthew Silver
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." - Mark Twain
"Anyone, no matter how smart or educated, can be tricked and it's impossible to know when the person being tricked is you." - Anonymous
"All you touch, and all you see is all your life will ever be." - Mark Twain
"Life's about the journey not the destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thoughts become words, words become actions." - Anonymous
"When the student is ready the teacher will appear." - Lao Tzu
"The first draft of anything is garbage." - Ernest Hemingway
"You only dread these dreary tasks when you're dreading them." - Unknown
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." - Greg McKeown
"People overestimate what they can do in a single day. And underestimate what they can do in their whole lives." - Unknown
"If you want to live a life you've never lived, you have to do things you've never done." - Jen Sincero
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." - Les Brown
"You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change." - Unknown
"On your journey through life, make sure your biography has at least one extraordinary chapter." - Unknown
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything." - Vincent Van Gogh
"Low self esteem is like driving through life with your handbrake on." - Maxwell Maltz
"If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." - Terry Pratchett
"Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily" - Mike Murdock
"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir
"The future depends on what we do in the present." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been." - Robert Schuller
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
"Today, you have 100% of your life left." - Tom Landry
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius
"Do not wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to endure a difficult one." - Bruce Lee
"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." - Will Rogers
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life." - Robin Sharma
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?" - Rumi
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. One who lives life fully is prepared to die at any time." - Mark Twain
"Our path through life can take strange turns" - Escher
"Life is a journey, not a destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent van Gogh
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." - Voltaire
"You are a human with one life and it is up to you to make it the best life you can." - Dan Howell
"If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now." - Unknown
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realising that you are the author." - Mark Houlahan
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
"The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us." - Mary Oliver
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"Today is the most important day of our lives." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen" - Jack Ma
"Those who do not archive the past are condemned to retype it!" - Garfinkel and Spafford
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience." - Mark Manson
"You can be happy or you can be unhappy. It's just according to the way you look at things." - Walt Disney
"When you drink alcohol you are just borrowing happiness from tomorrow." - Unknown
"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you." - Mary Lou Retton
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn
"Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness" - Zhuang Zhou
"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness." - Diane von Furstenberg
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears." - Glenn Clark
"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on." - Les Brown
"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life." - Unknown
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge
"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it." - Elbert Hubbard
"Be a magnet for joy, love and abundance." - Unknown
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
"To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them." - Maria Popova
"Independence is happiness" - Susan B. Anthony
"The less I needed, the better I felt" - Charles Bukowski
"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Be an encourager, the world has enough critics already." - Anonymous
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving." - Dale Carnegie
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." - Anonymous
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." - Ursula K. Le Guin
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu
"Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." - Winnie the Pooh
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." - Hansa Proverb
"We are what we believe we are." - C. S. Lewis
"To know who your true friends are, look out for the ones who say good things behind your back and bad things to your face." - Anonymous
"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends." - J.K. Rowling
"Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have." - Robert Holden
"I didn't learn to talk from a linguist, I learned to talk from hearing other people talk" - Anonymous
"A language isn't something you learn so much as something you join." - Anonymous
"Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated." - Unknown
"Never use a long word when a short one will do." - Anonymous
"Write like you speak" - Anonymous
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair
"Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced." - H. L. Mencken
"If you don't read the paper you are uninformed, if you do you are misinformed" - Mark Twain
"Democracy is the worst form of government ... except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston S Churchill
"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again." - Anne Frank
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next" - Henry Ward Beecher
"There are decades when nothing happens. There are weeks where decades happen." - Vladimir Lenin
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford
"Throughout the history of the human race, few things have been more profitable than selling both the poison and the cure."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston S. Churchill
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell
"The past is done. The future has plenty of room for change." - Anonymous
"The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers." - Juliette Gordon Low
"The general principle that any problem you face, no matter how big, can be broken down into smaller and easier to solve problems, recursively, is the most important idea in human history."
"If we don't end war, war will end us." - H. G. Wells
"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five." - Carl Sagan
"If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth." - Julian Assange
Resilience?—?the capacity of a system to tolerate disturbance without collapsing, to withstand shocks, to rebuild itself when necessary, and to improve itself when possible.
Affirmation: "I am worthy of all the best in life and I can do anything I dream of doing!"
"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. With first principles you boil things down to the most fundamental truths… And then reason up from there." - Elon Musk
"Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"Beating yourself up for your flaws and mistakes won't make you perfect, and you don't have to be. Learn, forgive yourself, and remember: We all struggle; it's just part of being human." - Lori Deschene
"What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started." - Drew Houston
"Expose your weaknesses and work on them." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit." - Banksy
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"I like the look of agony, because I know it's true;" - Emily Dickinson
"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"Never underestimate the ability of a small group of dedicated people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person just enough comfort to be themselves." - Atticus
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." - Nelson Mandela
"Never dull your shine for somebody else." - Tyra Banks
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest people." - Roald Dahl
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Dr. Robert Schuller
"It's not who you think you are that holds you back it's who you think you're not." - Unknown
"Go forth and make awesomeness." - Unknown
"God is consciousness without the sense of self"
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
Joke: Why did the programmer quit his job? Because he didn't get arrays.
"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." - Maurice Wilkes
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dalí
"Someday is not a day of the week." - Denise Brennan-Nelson
"Truth isn't all about what actually happens but more about how what has happened is interpreted." - Byron Pulsifer
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Sun Tzu
"The cure for pain is in the pain" - Rumi
"Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life." - Tony Robbins
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"We only see what we know." - Goethe
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken, Computing Pioneer
"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." - Benjamin Brewster
"We are all failures. At least the best of us are." - JM. Barrie
"To teach is to learn twice" - Joseph Joubert
"Tetris came along early and had a very important role in breaking down ordinary people's inhibitions in front of computers, which were scary objects to non-professionals used to pen and paper. But the fact that something so simple and beautiful could appear on screen destroyed that barrier." – Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger Dijkstra
"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward." - Chinese Proverb
"When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred." - Thomas Jefferson
"When reviewing code, count to 10 before you refactor a line. If the code does not have tests, a hundred." - Samer Buna
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - John Woods
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Abelson & Sussman
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction." - Ernst Schumacher
"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating them is right. They are missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something." - Eric Hoffer
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters
"Why fit in when you were born to stand out? - "Dr. Seuss
"If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better." - Lindsay Buckingham
"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. They can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by them." - Epictetus
"The best functions are those with no parameters!" - Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)
"People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world. But the real problem is that computers are too stupid and they've already taken over the world." - Pedro Domingos
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it." - Bruce Lee
"You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin
"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data." - Daniel Keys Moran
"If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." - John Maeda: The Laws of Simplicity
"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." - Andrew Carnegie
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." - Ralph Emerson
"If you want to understand how to get better, you have to look at exactly the moves you made, and find out the nature of your mistakes." - Garry Kasparov
"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." - Kurt Lewin
"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." - Robert H. Schuller
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Edward J. Stieglitz
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee
"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code - not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." - Python creator Guido van Rossum
"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness." - Diane von Furstenberg
"Programming is the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation." - Andy Hertzfeld
"An essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail." - Edwin H. Land
"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay
"Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability." - Patrick Lencioni
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success." - Henry Ford
"Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it." - Eileen Caddy
“The mathematician's patterns, like those of the painter's or the poet's, the ideas, like the colours or words, must fit together in a harmonious way. There is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.” - Godfrey Harold Hardy from "A Mathematician's Apology"
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"Most people get ahead during the time that others waste." - Henry Ford
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance, they have travelled from the point where they started." - Henry Ward Beecher
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein
"The moment you become selfish, you do less." - David Almirol Jr.
"Try the impossible to show that it can be done." - Terry Fox
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Unknown
"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." - Stephen McCranie
"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." - John Johnson
"We shall do a much better programming job, provided we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as very humble programmers." - Alan Turing
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." - Khalil Gibran
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are." - Anonymous
"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." - Malcolm Forbes
"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." - Cargill's Rule
"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience." - Roger Ascham
"One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try." - Sophocles
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"Build your skills, not your resume." - Sheryl Sandberg
"Skills make you rich, not theories." - Robert Kiyosaki
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estee Lauder
"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot." - Scott adams
"Mentors are someone who allows you to see hope inside yourself." - Oprah Winfrey
"There is no right time, there is just time and what you choose to do with it." - Alex Karev, Grey's Anatomy
"If you don't get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won't understand how much big the world is." - Angelina Jolie
"The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think." - Paulo Coelho
"Because those who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr.Seuss
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." - Martin Luther King Jr
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"We all get what we tolerate. All the problems in the world is always just fear." - Tony Robbins
"Because wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure." - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
"Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart." - Galatians 6:9
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." - Seneca the Younger
"Why fit in when you born to stand out?" - Dr.Seuss
"Excuses are born out of fear. Eliminate your fear and there will be no excuses." - Unknown
"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence." - Sonia Sotomayor
"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or back into safety." - Abraham Maslow
"If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror." - Roman Price
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." - Les Brown
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." - Alan Watts
"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." - Unknown
"People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude." - John C. Maxwell
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
"Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." - Oscar Wilde
"As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you no matter what is wrong." - Jon Kabet-Zinn
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabet-Zinn
"Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more." - Jon Kabet-Zinn
"Be careful with your words. Once they are said they can only be forgiven, not forgetten." - Unknown
"All the things we think are so important in our lives are utterly insignificant in reality." - Marcus Aurelius
"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars." - Ben Stein
"The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one had ever been." - Albert Einstein
"Study what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irrelavant and original manner possible." - Richard Feynman
"Everything is difficult until you know how to do it." - Anonymous
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." - Mark Twain
"For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples." - John B. Conway
"He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night." - Mary Louise Bell divorce complaint
"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time." - Charlie Munger
"Launch and learn. Everything is progress." - Danielle LaPorte
"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem." - Captain Jack Sparrow
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"Computer Programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, especially because it produces objects of beauty." - Donald Knuth, 1974
"Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts." - Phil Jackson
"I never took a day off in my 20's. Not One." - Bill Gates
"Don't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still." - Chinese Proverb
"All happy companies are different: Each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: They failed to escape competition." - Competition Is for Losers, Peter Thiel
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition." - Dennis Gabor, British physicist and author of Inventing the Future, 1962
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)
"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." - T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961 (the first commercial communications satellite went into service in 1965)
"The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most." - IBM , to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, "predicting" the relentless march of technology, 1949
"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." - Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible." - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer, 1902
"Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system. The rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping." - Mary Shaw
"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality." - Dr Roopleen
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." - Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech
"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code - not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." - Guido van Rossum
"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom." - Gary Schubert & Cliff Stoll
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." - Dan Salomon
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
"Computer programming is an art because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. Programmers who subconsciously view themselves as artists will enjoy what they do and will do it better." - Donald Knuth
"Privacy is not for the passive." - Jeffrey Rosen
"When feeling overwhelmed by a faraway goal, repeat the following: I have it within me right now, to get me to where I want to be later." - Karen Salmansohn
"If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good." - Dr. Seuss
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." - Les Brown
"It's not about where your starting point is, but your end goal and the journey that will get you there." - Unknown
"Lead with your strengths, not your weaknesses." - Unknown
"You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect." - Scott Simpson
"Programming isn’t about what you know. It’s about what you can figure out." - Chris Pine
"It is not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it." - Lou Holtz
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to be yourself." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly." - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
"Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end, because once you get there you can move mountains." - Steve Jobs
"Maybe it's better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it's OK." - Bobby Fischer
"Some people make your laugh a little louder, your smile a little brighter and your life a little better. Try to be one of those people." - Unknown
"On your journey through life, make sure your biography has at least one extraordinary chapter." - Unknown
"People tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years." - JCR Licklider, co-creator of the internet
"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations." - Mae Jemison
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anaïs Nin
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will." - Stephen King
"Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program." - Fred Brooks
"If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough." - Mario Andretti
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn
"Go beyond yourself rather than beyond others." - Unknown
"I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing." - Vladimir Kramnik
"The golden rule of level design - finish your first level last." - John Romero (co-creator of DOOM)
"The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right." - Vincent van Gogh
"For all its power, the computer is a harsh taskmaster. Its programs must be correct, and what we wish to say must be said accurately in every detail." - Alan Perlis
"Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." - Confucius
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas
"Find what you love and let it kill you." - Charles Bukowski
"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious." - Rumi
"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." - Eric Raymond
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - Peter Deutsch
"A secure system is one that does what it is supposed to do, and nothing more." - John B. Ippolito
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." - Thomas Edison
"Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning." - Unknown
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." - Richard Branson
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein
"The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand." - Douglas W. Jones
"Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent." – David Rockwell, architect and Tony Award-winning musical set designer
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali
"In many ways, Python is a dull language. It borrows solid old concepts from many other languages: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions. But that's one of the things I like about Python." - Tim Peters, Author of "Zen of Python" and creator of the Timsort sorting algorithm
"When in doubt, use brute force." - Ken Thompson
"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself." - Ken Thompson
"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there." - Ken Thompson
"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty." - Ken Thompson
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." - Dennis Ritchie
"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace." - Dennis Ritchie
"I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time." - Dennis Ritchie
"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around." - Dennis Ritchie
"I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through." - James Gosling
"People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security." - James Gosling
"It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML." - James Gosling
"With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power." - Richard Stallman
"Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy." - Richard Stallman
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion." - Richard Stallman
"Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom." - Richard Stallman
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal." - Richard Stallman
"If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs." - Richard Stallman
"Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn't admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don't know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user." - Richard Stallman
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." - Richard Stallman
"Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult." - Richard Stallman
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity." - Richard Stallman
"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do." - Richard Stallman
"If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software." - Richard Stallman
"One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control." - Richard Stallman
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" - Brian Kernighan
"Don't comment bad code-rewrite it." - Brian W. Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style
"Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway." - Brian W. Kernighan
"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem." - Bjarne Stroustrup
"Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good." - Bjarne Stroustrup
"The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel." - Bjarne Stroustrup
"Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher." - Bjarne Stroustrup
"Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony
"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!" - Audrey Hepburn
"Light tomorrow with today" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement." - Will Rogers
"It always seems impossible until it's done." -
"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." - Bruce Lee
"History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did." - Bruce Schneier, Security Researcher
"If everyone is moving forward together then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford
"An Organization’s ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage." - Jack Welch
"The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture." - Edgar Schein
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." - Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." - Albert Einstein
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." - Jim Rohn
"The automation for carrying coffee across the world is better and more reliable than the kind of tools we use to ship software between computers." - Solomon Hykes in 2013, explaining what inspired him to create Docker
"It's easy to shoot your foot off with Git. But it's also easy to revert to a previous foot, then merge it with your current leg." - Jack William Bell, Software Engineer and Git user
"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do." - Bob Ross
"Information flow is what the internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless." - Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the internet