Quotes

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” > - Will Durant

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"The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
– Paul Kedrosky

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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work."
– John Gall

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"We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making."
– Carl Winfeld

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"We are the masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
– Churchill

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"Good ideology. Wrong species."
– E. O. Wilson on Marxism

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"Now, most people hate to admit they're wrong, but it didn't bother Bill one bit. All he cared about was what was right, not who was right. That's what makes Bill very, very dangerous."
– Larry Ellison on Bill Gates

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"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."
– Winston Churchill

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"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
– Teller

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"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
– Neils Bohr

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"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
– Niels Bohr

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"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
– Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition

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"However little television you watch, watch less."

• David McCullough

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"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word."

• Stephen King |

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"PowerPoint makes us stupid."

• General James N. Mattis, USMC

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"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
– Alan Kay

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"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
– Tara Ploughman

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