Data! data! data! I can’t make bricks without clay.
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
PEBKAC – Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair
What?
This is an enviroment of welcoming and you should just get the hell out.
Always love your country, but never trust your government!
That should not be misunderstood. I certainly am not advocating civil disobedience, must less insurrection or rebellion. What I am advocating is to not expect too much from government and be wary of it power, even the power of a democratic government in a free country.
Ours is one of the mildest, most benevolent governments in the world. But it too has the power to take your wealth and forfeit your life. … A government that can give you everything can take everything away.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
We’ve done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
That’s what governments are for, to get in a man’s way.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
I like smackin’ them.
I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. I’m going to defend it. Right or wrong, I’m going to defend it.
I prefer dangerous freedom to a peaceful slavery.
Give me smallest finger on man’s hand. I’ll produce information. Computer unnecessary.
The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we’re only in a recession, not a depression — as if definitions — words — relieve our suffering. Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it’s a definition he wants, I’ll give him one: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his!
The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.
It is unwise to trust what an end user says.
A commercial companys ability to innovate is inversely proportional to its proclivity to publicly release conceptual products.
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Real artists ship.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.
I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting.
We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It’s pretty great.
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
Click. Boom. Amazing!
Because I’m the CEO, and I think it can be done.
Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.
We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash.
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!
Back off, man. I’m a scientist.
Who dares, wins.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nations troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Properly built/engineered equipment should operate properly.
Criticism is something we can avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, BEING nothing.
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
My father told me many times, one of the best ways to judge someone’s character is to watch how they treat people who can’t do anything for them. If they treat people who can’t do anything for them like dirt, then you’re dealing with a lowbrow plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n’ roller phoniness, bad guys, no character whatsoever.
If meat is so bad for all these vegans, why do they make all their food look like meat?
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
one of the most imprisoning aspects of human behavior is caring what other people will think of you by virtue of what you say, by virtue of what you do.
Clap my hands and jump for joy;
I was here before Kilroy.Sorry to spoil your little joke;
I was here, but my pencil broke.
Personally, I liked working for the university! They gave us money and facilities. We didnt have to produce anything. Youve never been out of college. You dont know what its like out there! Ive worked in the private sector they expect results!
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Security is your ability to produce.
I can’t promise I’ll try, but I’ll try to try.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
The theme of this picture is whether man ought to be ruled by Gods law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Ramses. Are men property of the State, or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world today.
I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
Sorry, Venkman. I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other peoples money.
Power is like being a lady; if you have to say you are, you arent.
Tomorrow Is Often the Busiest Day of the Week.
If Youre Not Making Mistakes, then Youre Not Doing Anything.
The less you reveal the more people can wonder.
Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…
A Man Grows Most Tired While Standing Still.
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.
Let us stand on each other’s shoulders, not each other’s toes.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there.
A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
I’m an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers… They use my tools.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you.
It’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else.
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year’s model.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Do well by doing good.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure
The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!
Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works.
Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.
Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
You can’t see it if you don’t look at it.
Calculation and reasoning, like weaving and ploughing, are work, not for human souls, but for clever combinations of iron and wood.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
We are what we celebrate.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success
“I Have Not Failed. I Have Just Found 10,000 Things That Do Not Work.”
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Ponder this: If you don’t like the government (NSA,FBI, etc) spying on you then why do you want the government to handle your healthcare?
If the government can spy on your communications without due process, how can you trust them with your medical treatment?
In socialism the powerful become rich and in capitalism the rich become powerful.