Favorite Quotes

• If you don't have plans for the day, the day will have plans for you.
  
  • Patrick Nicholson, regarding having a clear research plan for the day.


• The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
  
  • Arthur Schopenhauer


• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
  
  • Henry Ford


• Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
  
  • John Wooden


• 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.
  
  • George Bernard Shaw


• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
  
  • Martina Navratilova


• 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


• 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


• 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


• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
  
  • Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)


• There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
  
  • Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977


• Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
  
  • E. W. Dijkstra


• Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
  
  • Clifford Stoll


• The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
  
  • Henri-Fridiric Amiel


• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
  
  • Albert Einstein


• 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)


• 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?
  
  • Shantideva


• You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
  
  • Frank Crane


• 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)


• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
  
  • George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"


• 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


• 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.
  
  • N. W. Dougherty, 1955


• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
  
  • Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)


• 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


• 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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