Favorite Quotes
"What is the most important problem in your field?
"Why aren't you working on it?"
– Richard Hamming
"I just don't have the time to be in a hurry."
– Anthony De Mello, Awakening
"Life is what happens to you
while you are busy making other plans."
– John Lennon
"One day, these will be the good old times.
One day, you would give anything for another day just like this."
– anon.
"There is a very fine line between
truly living your life and just wasting it away."
– anon.
"Never grow up.
But never stop growing."
– Arthur C. Clarke
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
– Margaret Mead
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good men do nothing."
– Edmund Burke
"If we cannot do it better than others, why do it?"
– Herbert Dow (founder of the Dow chemical company)
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
– Alan Kay
"It takes twenty years to become an overnight success."
– Paul Saffo
"I've always said that all successful systems were small systems initially.
Great, world-changing things – Java, for instance – always start small.
The ideal project is where people don't have meetings, they have lunch.
The size of the team should be the size of the lunch table."
– Bill Joy
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect
of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate
beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world
a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition; to know that even
one life has breathed easier because you have lived."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson