My favourite Quotes
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There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't
- Unknown
Programming is an art form that fights back
- Unknown
Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
- A. J. Liebing
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
- Edsgar Dijkstra
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
- Bjarne Stroustrup
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki)
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Facts are the enemy of truth
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
- Aldous Huxley
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
- Bumper Sticker
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
- John von Neumann
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
- Groucho Marx
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
- Katherine Cebrian
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire
No Sane man will dance.
- Cicero
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
- Robert J. Oppenheimer
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
- Woody Allen
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
- Adlai Stevenson
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato the Elder
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1000 chickens?
- Seymour Cray, father of supercomputing
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher von Braun
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
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.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
I don't believe in mathematics.
- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Referring to a glass of water:) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!
- Stephen Wright
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
- John Updike
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
- Arnold Glasow
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
- Unknown
A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
- Zig Ziglar
USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up percent of the population.
- David Letterman
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.
- Robert A. Heinlein
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- Sir John Lubbock
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark
It is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
- Unknown
If it's green, it's biology, If it stinks, it's chemistry, If it has numbers, it's math, If it doesn't work, it's technology.
- Unknown
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Old Basic programmers don't die..they just GOSUB and never return
- Unknown
Old C programmers don't die..they are just cast into void
- Unknown
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all
- Dale Carnegie
Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away from him, and you have his shoes.
- Jack Handy
Build a man a fire, warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.
- Unknown
I can imagine a world without hate, a world without war, a world without fear. And I can imagine us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Jack Handy
If a tree falls in the forest, and it lands on a mime, does anyone care?
- Jack Handy
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
- Unknown
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver...No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute athority to arrange a stage or a field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.
- Joseph Weizenbaum
Courage is the ability to discard what we are for what we may become
- Charles Dubois
If I have seen further, it was by standing on the shoulders of Giants
- Sir Isaac Newton
Work for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect nothing, and you will always be content.
- Unknown
Two paths diverged in the woods, and I took the path less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them
- Alfred North Whitehead
Science must begin with myths, and the critizism of myths
- Sir Karl Popper
The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable
- Confucius
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it.
- Giuseppe Mazzini
He who knows should rule, and he who does not know should obey
- Italian proverb
A good mind is lord of a kingdom
- Seneca
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up
- John Andrew Holmes
The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry, and his environment and to become what he dreams of being
- Tully C. Knoles
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory
- General George S. Patton
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security
- Benjamin Franklin
No man is worth your tears and the one that is won't make you cry
- Brian Littrell
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great
- Mark Twain
There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can
- Henry Ford
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
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one
- Charles Sykes
There is no knowledge that is not power
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never trust a thin chef
- Unknown
Now there's a man with an open mind ... you can feel the breeze from here!
- Groucho Marx
As I walk thorugh the valley of death I fear no one, for I am the meanest motherfucker in that valley!
- General George S. Patton
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