Quotes

It is not our feet that move us along. It is our minds.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they pass by.

To be informed is to know simply that something is the case.
To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is all about.

Passwords are like toothbrushes.
Don’t share them,
and change them every 6 months.

Rethink possible.

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

Don’t look for the needle. Buy the haystack.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

Rule #1: Never lose money. Rule #2: Never forget Rule #1.

Alone among the professions, the accountant accomplishes his social purpose by being independent of his client rather than serving the client’s interest to the exclusion of others or following his own profit-maximizing interest

Please, God, send me ideas.

Please, God, send me the willingness to just listen and write.

I have learned that my creative condition and my spiritual condition are one and the same. Making art is an act of faith.

God is the great artist. We are creations and we are intended, in turn, to be creative ourselves.

Follow your bliss.

If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

A ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Courage is contagious.
When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

Christianity, and nothing else is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization.

Symbols mean nothing if the values aren't there.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men. (After losing a bundle in the South Sea Bubble)

If books had been invented after the computer, they would have been considered a big breakthrough. Books have several hundred simultaneous paper-thin, flexible displays. They boot instantly. They run on very low power at a very low cost.

The soul must perform two duties.
The first is to always wonder and be surprised.
The second is to endure, always taking pleasure in God.

There is no perfect time to write. There's only now.

There cannot be a crisis next week.
My schedule is already full.

Art is making the strange familiar and the familiar strange.

No, this is the time to give.

What is the best use of my time right now?

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

You can't wait for inspiration.
You have to go after it with a club.

You can't sit around thinking.
You have to sit around writing.

Travelers, there is no path,
paths are made by walking

I will persist until I succeed.
Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time.

I don’t want to go faster. If anything I’d like to be able to go slower because I don’t think all that fast.

I like it (a 1940 manual typewriter) because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that. It’s not out in the ether somewhere.

Absolute anonymity breed irresponsibility.
Audit trails and authentication provide a much more civil society

The aim of life is to live,
and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenly, divinely aware.

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that.

Yesterday
you said
tomorrow.

Just Do It.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Mother Teresa showed me that no job is too small, but my spirit may be. She showed me that it is less about the actual work and more about the attitudes and the spirit in which we do it.

Methods are many, principles are few.
Methods change often, principles never do.

The greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Let no one come to you without leaving better or happier.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

The Law of Forced Efficiency: This law says that, 'There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.'

First get your facts, then distort them at your leisure.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.
...
If you have to eat a frog, don’t look at it for too long.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If who pays you makes a difference,
You should find a new career.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Veritas Vos Liberabit
The Truth Will Set You Free

Veritas
Truth
Motto at The University of South Dakota

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.

To go forward, you must backup.

If it wasn't backed-up, then it wasn't important.

All computers wait at the same speed.

If you torture the data enough, it will confess.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

Data expands to fill the space available for storage

/* You are not expected to understand this */

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

If you don't have a good system, make sure you get good users.

Linux is only free if your time is worthless.

3 Biggest Software Lies:

• The program's fully tested and bug-free.
• We're working on the documentation.
• Of course we can modify it.

God, give us grace
to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things
that should be changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

If you believe that people should get what they deserve, be prepared to give back what you have.

The Lime Tree:
Your perception of reality depends on how you choose to view it.

• Simple abundance, tasty and useful
• A burden to pick off the ground

Projects as Golfing:
You can only hit one ball at a time, so keep each swing focused on where the ball needs to land. If the ball falls short of its destination, you can always hit it again.