- We can do no great things. Only small things with
great love.
Mother Teresa
- In the long run, we are all dead, so that the
great challenge in life is defining how we shall
live in the shadow of how we may die.
G. Pascal Zachary
- Your position never gives you the right to
command. It only imposes on you the duty of so
living your life that others can receive your
orders without being humiliated.
Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the
United Nations, "Väg märken" (Way
markings)
- Give a human a fish and you feed someone for a
day. Give a human a fishing rod and you feed
someone for a lifetime.
- Give a human a fish and you feed someone for a
day, but give a human a case of dynamite and soon
the village will be showered with mud and seaweed
and unidentifiable chunks of fish.
Joe Chew
- That which does not kill us, has made its last
mistake.
Neil Graham, Screaming Duck Software
- If you can't do it excellently, don't do it at
all. Because if it's not excellent it won't be
profitable or fun, and if you're not in business
for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing
here?
Pete Townsend, "Up The
Organisation"
- Only the paranoid flourish.
Andy Grove, Intel
- If computers were cars, it would be 1930.
Me
- To each time its art, to art its freedom.
Gustav Klimpt and the Viennese Secessionists
- Speed doesn't kill. Stopping very fast kills.
Johnathan Mark Smith
- I have the world's largest collection of
seashells. I keep it scattered on beaches around
the world. Perhaps you've seen it.
Don McGregor
- People Propose, Science Studies, Technology
Conforms.
Donald A. Norman, "Things that make us
smart"
- How does one become a butterfly? You must want to
fly so much, you are willing to give up being a
caterpillar.
Stripe
and Yellow
- Will Ogg
for food.
Any Netrek
player
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- Brilliance cannot combat apathy, because apathy
doesn't bother to show up for the battle.
Dan Hepner, HP
- Kill all the birds and use all the stones you
want.
Jon Navy, MetaTools
- I'm not shy. I'm studying my prey.
Sunshyn
- In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is
not a king - he is a gibbering idiot.
Colin Cherry, "On Human Communication: A
review, a survey and a criticism"
- I know that being compulsive is not a bad thing
because I triple-checked.
- Ten thousand people can say a foolish thing, and
it is still a foolish thing.
- If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with
Murphy.
Pedro Proença
- If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage.
Louis B. Mayer
- In God we trust, all others must bring data.
Motorola
- Perfection is not when nothing more can be added,
but when nothing more can be taken away.
- Simplicity is the natural result of profound
thought.
- An individual without information cannot take
responsibility; an individual who is given
information cannot help but take responsibility.
Jan Carlzon, SAS
- Software expresses the team that created it.
Jim McCarthy, "Dynamics of Software
Development"
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, courage to change the things I
can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Neibuhr
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, courage to change the things I
can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the
people I had to kill because they really pissed
me off.
- Ultima ratio regum (The last argument of kings)
Louis XIV's cannons' inscription
- A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then
he is Mr. Dog.
Haitian Farmer
- Life is lived forward but understood backwards,
so to avoid regret we think carefully about the
things that matter most.
Ivor Tiefenbrun, Linn
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