Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Jules Verne: Let them wear out by being read
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” —Jules Verne.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Detect differences
“Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Write a hundred
“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.” – Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Simon Sinek: Honor
“We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.” —Simon Sinek.
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W C Fields: Horse sense
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.” – W. C. Fields.
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Nick Diamos: Nobody listens
“Everybody lies, but it doesn’t matter because nobody listens.” – Nick Diamos.
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Richard Feynman: Philosophers say a great deal
“Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.” – Richard Feynman.
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George Orwell: More equal than others
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell.
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Abraham Lincoln: Coffee and tea
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” ––Abraham Lincoln.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Arrested development
“The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
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Albert Einstein: Equally wise, equally foolish
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” – Albert Einstein.
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Firesign Theatre: Seeker born every minute
“Hello seeker! Now don’t feel alone here in the New Age, because there’s a seeker born every minute.” – Firesign Theatre.
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Augusten Burroughs: Made entirely of flaws
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” –Augusten Burroughs.
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Zechariah Chafee: Fruiful and free
“Speech should be fruitful as well as free.” —Zechariah Chafee, judicial philosopher.
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Alfred North Whitehead: Seek simplicity and distrust it
“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.” – Alfred North Whitehead.
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David T Wolf: Idealism, experience and cynicism
“Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.” – David T. Wolf.
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Samuel Johnson: Intellectual labour
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” – Samuel Johnson.
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Michel de Montaigne: Saying silly things
“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Albert Guinon: Absolutely wrong or absolutely right
“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.” – Albert Guinon.
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Flannery O’Connor: Stomach it
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor.
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Epigrams in Programming: Correct unit of time
“Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?” —Epigrams in Programming, SIGPLAN, Association for Computing Machinery, September 1982.
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Fred Brooks: Simplified explanations don’t comfort software engineers
“Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.” —Fred Brooks, essay “No Silver Bullet”.
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Andrew S Tanenbaum: Defective software
“A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.” —Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 2003.
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Bill Gates: Write programs
“Interviewer: Is studying computer science the best way to prepare to be a programmer? Bill Gates: No. the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings…
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Mark Twain: Good breeding
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” – Mark Twain.
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Emile Chartier: Two kinds of scholars
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.” – Emile Chartier.
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Ronald Reagan: Politics
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” – Ronald Reagan.
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George Bernard Shaw: Liberty means responsibility
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw.
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Wilhelm Bode: Rembrandt
“Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.” —Wilhelm Bode.
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Douglas Adams: Major difference
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.” —Douglas Adams.
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Rich Book: Software engineers and idiots
“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.” —Rich Cook.
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Raymond Blanc: Act of hate
“When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.” —Raymond Blanc.
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Robert Orben: Every morning
“Every morning 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.
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Bill Watterson: Surest sign
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson.
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George Carlin: Frisbeetarianism
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.” – George Carlin.
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Carl Sandburg: Idealist
“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” —Carl Sandburg.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Jests and facts
“He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Robin Morgan: All men are strange
“Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.” – Robin Morgan.
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Ernest Haskins: Save a little money each month
“Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.” – Ernest Haskins.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Stuffed deer heads
“Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.” – Ellen DeGeneres.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Pleasing people
“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.” – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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Jules Renard: Better for his reputation if he didn’t
“I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.” —Jules Renard.
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Jules Renard: Hourglass
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” —Jules Renard.
