Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
449 lines (300 loc) · 10.9 KB

QUOTES.md

File metadata and controls

449 lines (300 loc) · 10.9 KB

Favourite quotes

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
― Voltaire


Talk is cheap, show me the code.
― Linus Torvalds


The one who might be holding you back is you.
― Frank Sonnenberg


Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.
― Henry Ford


Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction.
― Sandi Metz


GitHub is the largest closed source collection of open source repositories.
― Unknown


Those who speak do not know. Those who know do not speak.
― Lao Tzu


Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler.
― Albert Einstein


What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
― Fred Brooks


People have an enormous tendency to resist change. They love to say, 'We've
always done it this way.' I try to fight that.
― Grace Hopper


Simplicity is the heart of the Unix philosophy. The more code lines you have
removed, the more progress you have made. As the number of lines of code in
your software shrinks, the more skilled you have become and the less your
software sucks.
― Suckless software


No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
― Plato


Only fools don't change their mind.
― A French Saying


Happiness isn't real, unless it is shared.
― Chris McCandless


Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their
experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
― Socrates


A well-designed system makes it easy to do the right things and annoying (but
not impossible) to do the wrong things.
― Jeff Atwood


Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying,
sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
― Pele


Before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the
greater the temptation to withstand.
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower


Always leave the code behind in a better state than you found it. If everyone
on the team is doing this, they make small regular contributions to code base
health every day.
― Unknown


Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and
those who matter don't mind. You have brains in your head, you have feet in
your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
― Dr. Seuss


Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design
whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
―  Melvin E. Conway


Graphical user interfaces make easy tasks easy, while command line interfaces
make difficult tasks possible
― William E. Shotts Jr., The Linux Command Line


Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there
is nothing left to take away
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing
people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven
out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to
make great products.
― Steve Jobs


I learned a painful lesson, that for small programs dynamic typing is great,
for large programs you have to have a more disciplined approach and it helps if
the language actually gives you that discipline, rather than telling you 'Well
you can do whatever you want'. I found TypeScript is actually incredibly useful,
so we're adding a similar idea to Python, we're adding it in a slightly
different way because we have different context ... I thought dynamic languages
were easier to approach because you haven't got types that are this bother all
the time. Well it turns out that you can actually be more productive by having
types if you do it in a non-intrusive manner and if you work hard doing good
type inference and so forth.
― Guido van Rossum (April, 2019)


There is no decent place to stand in a massacre, but if a woman takes your
hand then go and stand with her
― Leonard Cohen


If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as
if it were a nail
― Abraham Maslow


Take risks, if you win, you will be happy, if you lose, you will be wiser.
― Swami Vivekananda


If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
― Geena Davis


First you imitate, then you innovate.
― Miles Davis


A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
― WarGames


Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own
side; it's where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.
― Richelle E. Goodrich


Simplicity is complicated; simplicity hides a great deal of complexity, and
that both the simplicity and complexity are part of the design.
― Rob Pike


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
― Napoleon Bonaparte


Your worst enemy is your best teacher.
— Buddha


Be Water, My Friend.
Empty your mind.
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend.
— Bruce Lee


I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't
like a person.
― Bill Murray


Don't get mad, get busy.
― Rob Muhlestein


Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
― Corrie Ten Boom


Follow the rules. But, don't follow stupid rules... If you're going to stand up
and break a rule, think about it, and you have to be willing to take the
consequences. But, there's consequences to not standing up to stupid rules too.
― Jordan Peterson


You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you're capable of great
violence. If you're not capable of violence you're not peaceful, you're
harmless.
― Unknown


Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance


There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
― Salman Rushdie


You should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful, but you
should be more afraid of staying where you are if it's making you miserable.
― Jordan Peterson


Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
― Michael Jackson


If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come
to believe it.
― Joseph Goebbels


Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and
define you.
― Thomas Jefferson


If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
– Unknown


I like hiring people for who they're gonna be tomorrow, versus who they are
today. Because some people are smart, and they'll be that same person tomorrow,
whereas the other guy or girl will be ridiculously smarter a year from now and
surpass the people you already have.
– Erik St. Martin


The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way’.
– Grace Hopper


No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is
a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which
his body is capable.
― Socrates


Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
― Fred Brooks


Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quick
and get on with improving your other innovations.
― Steve Jobs


The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction.
― Rob Pike


Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki


If you knew how much work was put into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
― Michelangelo


Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
― Pablo Picasso


Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
― Jordan Peterson


One of the biggest traps for smart engineers is optimizing something that shouldn't exist
― Elon Musk


If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay.
― Steve Jobs


As you get older, you have to choose between being who you want to be and who you are. And that's a choice that you have to make.
― James S.A. Corey novel


Many of my brilliant friends are paralyzed by their intellects. Thinking overwhelms doing. Many of my successful friends are less reflective, but quick to action. They are always focused on moving forward. Making as many 'probably correct actions' as possible. A winning strategy.
― David Holz


The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
― Leo Tolstoy


Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.
― George Santayana


Don't even start considering solutions until you Understand the problem. Your
goal should be to "solve" the problem mostly within the problem domain, not the
solution domain.
― Oz Nova


An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning
over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul.
What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing
generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance
of the fact that the future lies with the youth.
—  Max Planck


Live in the question, Don't be satisfied with quick answers Questions lead us on
a quest. Seek your own answers and not just what other people tell you. Become
the authority of your life.
— Larry Schultz


An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.
— Terry A. Davis


When you see a good move, look for a better one.
— Emanuel Lasker


Consistency doesn't guarantee that you'll be successful. But not being
consistent guarantees that you won't be successful.
— Unknown


If you haven't clean your room, don't try to re organize the world.
— Jordan Peterson


Pick something you love doing so much that you'd do it for free, and turn
that into your career then you'll never have a sad day in your life.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson


Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
― Neil Strauss


The difference between masters and beginners is that masters have failed more
times than beginners have even tried.
― Stephen McCranie


What's good and bad in programming languages is largely a matter of opinion
rather than fact, despite the certainty with which many people argue about even the most trivial features.
― Rob Pike