Author: LINUS FERNANDES
-
Albert Guinon: Absolutely wrong or absolutely right
“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.” – Albert Guinon.
-
Flannery O’Connor: Stomach it
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor.
-
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.
-
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”.
-
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.
-
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…
-
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.
-
Emile Chartier: Two kinds of scholars
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.” – Emile Chartier.
-
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.
-
George Bernard Shaw: Liberty means responsibility
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw.
-
Wilhelm Bode: Rembrandt
“Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.” —Wilhelm Bode.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
George Carlin: Frisbeetarianism
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.” – George Carlin.
-
Carl Sandburg: Idealist
“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” —Carl Sandburg.
-
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.
-
Robin Morgan: All men are strange
“Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.” – Robin Morgan.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Pleasing people
“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.” – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
-
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.
-
Jules Renard: Hourglass
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: Really free
“The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: Look for the ridiculous
“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: When I do not think of myself
“I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: Boredom is the only excuse for work
“La peur de l’ennui est la seule excuse du travail. – Boredom is the only excuse for work.” —Jules Renard.
-
James Murray: Language
‘Language is mobile and liable to change. It is a free country, and man may call a “vase” a “vawse”, a “vahse”, a “vaze”, or a “vase”, as he pleases. And why should he not? We do not all think alike, walk alike, dress alike, write alike, or dine alike; why should not we use…
-
Shirish Kunder: Argument between fools
“In an argument between fools, whoever shouts the loudest, wins.” —Shirish Kunder.
-
Jules Renard: Pride least likely to offend
“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: Failure
“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: Laziness
“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” —Jules Renard.
-
Jules Renard: Writing
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.” —Jules Renard.
-
George Orwell: Accept, grudgingly and suspiciously
“The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug — that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.” —George Orwell, novelist (1903-1950).
-
Galileo Galilei: In questions of science
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” –Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642).
-
John Dryden: For they conquer who believe they can
“For they conquer who believe they can.” —John Dryden.
-
William Faulkner: Fear
“Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.” —William Faulkner.
-
Thomas Fuller: Enjoy the present
“He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.” —Thomas Fuller.
-
D H Lawrence: Real courage
“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.” —D. H. Lawrence.
-
Nicolas Murray Butler: Optimism
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.” —Nicolas Murray Butler.
