When the winds of change blow, some people build walls while others build windmills.
Chinese proverb
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
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If you love life, then don't waste time, for time is what life is made of.
Bruce Lee
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it
Cicero.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Yeats
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Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Yeats
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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson
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Just fucking figure it out.
Unknown
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Beware of things that are fun to argue.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Abelson & Sussman, SICP
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
Donald Knuth
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Yeats, The Second Coming
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The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
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However little television you watch, watch less.
David McCullough
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Focusing is about saying no.
Steve Jobs
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When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.
Napoleon
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Don't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still.
Chinese proverb
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I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.
Charlie Munger
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
Warren Buffett
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Do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Simple, correct, fast. In that order.
Drew DeVault
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