Favorite Quotes
Here is a list of some of my favorite quotes, most of them taken from www.quotationspage.com.
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If you don't have plans for the day, the day will have plans for you.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5
tons.
- unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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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 X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better
idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of
any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably
wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law
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Printing is expensive and exponential is huge.
- Myself, experience learned in an assignment of my Theory of Computation undergrad course (CC30B).
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