/quotes

Some of my favorite quotes

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Quotes

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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