Quotes
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” — Swami Chinmayananda.
- “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” — G. K. Nielson
- “Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone agrees that they’re a good idea but nobody wants to use anyone else’s.” — Found in an eMail from Chris Jordan on the OGSA mailing list .
- “Planning replaces accident by mistake.” – unknown
- “A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” — Leslie Lamport
- “First they laugh at you, then, they ignore you, then they fight you, and then you win.” — Mahatma Ghandi
- “Es ist schon alles gesagt worden, aber noch nicht von allen.” — Karl Valentin
- “Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !” — Nathan P. Myhrvold
- “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
- “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. ” — Frank Zappa
- “Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.” — Fred Brooks
- “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
- “Die Erde ist ein Irrenhaus. Dabei könnte das bis heute erreichte Wissen der Menschheit aus ihr ein Paradies machen.” — Joseph Weizenbaum
- “Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.” — Wilson Mizner
- “He who dies with the most toys… still dies!” — Unknown
- “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: Cache invalidation and naming things” — Tim Bray quoting Phil Karlton
- “Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.” — David Wheeler
- “Tell me and I will forget, show me and I will remember, engage me and I will understand.” — Confucius (551-479 BC)
- “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” — Leo J. Burke
- “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso
- “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence” — The Peter Principle, by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
- “The plural of anecdote is not data.” — maybe by George Stigler (see here)
- “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” — Max Planck
- “Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers.” — Gustav Mahler
- “Die Helden seiner Kindheit verrät man nicht!” — Jürgen von der Lippe
- “”We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil” — Donald Knuth
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