I'll have to add some of these to my list of quotes that emacs greets me with. Current list:<p><pre><code> (defvar scratch-quotes
(list
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson"
"Look, I made a hat...where there never was a hat. - Finishing the hat, Sondheim"
"Just fucking figure it out."
"The universe is not here to please you. - Charles Murtaugh"
"Your life is your life. The gods await to delight in you. - Bukowski"
"Join the force and get a pension. - Salesman"
"Beware of things that are fun to argue. - Eliezer Yudkowsky"
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the result. - Winston Churchill"
"Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. - John Von Neumann"
"Writing program code is a good way of debugging your thinking. - Bill Venables"
"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. - Joe Biden quoting his father"
"Most haystacks do not even have a needle. - Lorenzo"
"Experiment and theory often show remarkable agreement when performed in the same laboratory. - Daniel Bershader"
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. - George Eliot"
"It is astonishing what foolish things a man thinking alone can come temporarily to believe. - Keynes"
"The purpose of computing is Insight, not numbers. - Richard Hamming"
"Work on stuff that matters. - Tim O'Reilly"
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. - Teller"
"You have to say something. It can't all be technique. - Woody Allen (on great actors)"
;; Paraphrased from a HN comment
"Perfectionism is a failure to optimize across a complex goal space, settling, instead, on ignoring the difficult prioritisation problem in favor of over-optimizing a limited set of tangible and easily-defined goals over longer-run priorities"
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I keep a list of quotes that I read from time to time<p>* When the winds of change blow, some people build walls while others build windmills. — Chinese proverb<p>* There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway<p>* If you love life, then don't waste time, for time is what life is made of. - Bruce Lee<p>* If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it - Cicero.<p>* Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - Yeats<p>* Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - Yeats
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."<p>This. x1000. I've found that a lot of disagreement about ways to implement a feature can be solved by keeping this in mind.
Any thoughts on the quote investigator?<p>That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/famous-misquotations.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/famous-misquotation...</a>
> "I'm surrounded by postmodern idiots and blatherers. Your writings give me hope."<p>> - email from a reader<p>That is... quite a quote.
> <i>"Many big people were chasing me. I didn't know what to do. So I thought I would surprise them and throw it."</i> - Garo Yepremian, Miami placekicker, after a disastrous attempt to throw a pass in the Super Bowl.<p>I don't understand this. What's the wisdom to be gleaned from this one?
> "It is said that there is a technical term for people who believe that little boys and little girls are born indistinguishable and are molded into their natures by parental socialization. The term is 'childless.'"<p>I have sometimes thought that one reason gay people might exist is that they're God's way of skewering the conservative idea that gender roles are absolutes fixed by nature. It occurred to me the other day that in the same vein, transgender people might be Her way of skewering the liberal idea that gender roles are total societal constructions.
I want to share some of quotes I see everyday:<p>1) The higher the mountain, the more treacherous the path - Frank Underwood<p>2) What you think, you become - Buddha<p>3) If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done
Given we’re sharing quote lists, allow me to spruik[1] my own contribution — Q4TD: Get one, per day. Available at the following places:<p>Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/q4td" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitter.com/q4td</a><p>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/quote4theday" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/quote4theday</a><p>Google Plus: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110672212432591877153/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/0/110672212432591877153/posts</a><p>RSS: <a href="https://q4td.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" rel="nofollow">https://q4td.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default</a><p>Blog: <a href="https://q4td.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://q4td.blogspot.com/</a><p>“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.” — Michel de Montaigne<p>[1] <a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/spruik" rel="nofollow">https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/spruik</a>
"However little television you watch, watch less."<p>-David McCullough<p>Unless it's the HBO miniseries "John Adams", based on his book!
I've completed 9 days of 31 consecutive days of half marathons, everyday I take a picture of something inspirational/interesting on my run (easy on miami's south beach) but I also add a quote of the day, I'll probably use Mark Twain's quote today.
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<p>This one has serious implication, not only in the computer programming world, of course.
A few good ones:<p><a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020" rel="nofollow">https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020</a><p><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/" rel="nofollow">http://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/</a><p><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz</a>
I spent a few months recently creating a quotes manager for iOS. Save and look up quotes by author, rating, source and tag.<p>[0] Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egqwsznp_EY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egqwsznp_EY</a>
[1] Website: <a href="https://www.humanquote.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.humanquote.com/</a>
Here is one that deserves to be more popular.<p>"Solving operating systems problems with hardware interrupts is a lot like solving your own personal problems with heroin - at first it sorta works, but after a while things just get out of hand." - Fred B. Schneider, PhD
he quotes one of my favorite poems, which is a good one to be reminded of (the whole poem, not just the quote) in these trying political times:<p>The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.<p>- Yeats, The Second Coming
I started keeping all quotes/highlights from books I read <a href="https://podviaznikov.com/quotes" rel="nofollow">https://podviaznikov.com/quotes</a>
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."<p>- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition<p>I may need a tattoo of this. (joking but only slightly)
Since everyone's posting theirs, here is mine: <a href="http://qte.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://qte.tumblr.com/</a>
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."<p>-- George Bernard Shaw<p>It's a bit eye-rolling whenever a PG essay makes the top page here, but a page of PG's favorite quotes on HN in days when the US slips into a novel blend of kleptocracy and autocracy, the NYT notes the top five tech firms are basically monopolies, and the most successful of the last decade's startups prove fiscally inept at best, ethically-challenged at worst... well, poop.