Thread: Select your Favorite Quotations

Here are some Quotations. Select your Favorite Quote and if you dont find one than post your favorite quote beside these.





"The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases."
McIlroy and Bentley

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton

"People only rain on your parade because they don't have their own."
Eric Downs
Downs Design

"A small thing repeated often enough, is a big thing."
JRP

"The future depends on what we do in the present"
Mahatma Gandhi

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
Henry Miller

"Copy and paste is a design error"
David Parnas

"Simplicity carried to the extreme becomes elegance."
Jon Franklin

"You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars

"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
Fred Brooks

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward

"The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire

"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Oath of Fealty

"Java is the blunt scissors of programming languages"
Dave Thomas

"If you believe that you know the requirements better than the customer, you are part of the problem, not the solution."
Alan M. Davis

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
Og Mandino

"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder."
Jay Leno

"I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind."
Richard Greenberg

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
Andre Gide

"If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first 6 hours sharpening my axe."
Abraham Lincoln

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
Steve Jobs

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
John Patrick

"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

"Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use."
Bob Moog

"If you can't explain something to a six year-old, you really don't understand it yourself."
Albert Einstein

"To attain knowledge, add things everyday; to obtain wisdom, remove things everyday."
Lao Tzu

"Good style is the 'underware' that supports a program"
Peter Norvig and Kent Pitman

"Elegance is not optional."
Richard A. O'Keefe

"COMPUTER POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DOWN WITH CYBERCRUD!"
Theodor Nelson

"I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very, high dense level."
John Warnock

"Say what you mean, simply and directly"
Kernighan and Plauger

"Write clearly - don't be too clever"
Kernighan and Plauger

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Charles Darwin

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein

"At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry."
Bentley's House of Coffee and Tea, Tucson, AZ
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

"In the elder days of art, builders wrought with greatest care, each minute and unseen part, for the Gods are everwhere"
Longfellow

"People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I like two of your quotes:

1."The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward
2."People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thanks for taking your time writing in this thread.

Theres some good quotes there, cheers. A couple of the ones I liked were:

"People only rain on your parade because they don't have their own."
Eric Downs
Downs Design

"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
Fred Brooks

However, you didn't have one of my favourites:

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”.
and it's a quote from Bruce Feirstein

:)

Here are two quotes from my fave authors. Amongst the many quotes they are each known for I remember these two more vividly than most.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

This is my favorite for all time.

The quieter you become the more you can hear.
Baba Ram Dass

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward

"If you can't explain something to a six year-old, you really don't understand it yourself."
Albert Einstein

Genious.

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
Bertrand Russell

"If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first 6 hours sharpening my axe."
Abraham Lincoln