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Achievement
Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. (from The Alchemist)
- Paul Coelho
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
- William Thackeray
It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.
- Paul Coelho
, The Alchemist
Business
Tell your boss what you think of him, and the truth shall set you free.
Business, especially management is all about making a choice when there is no "right" answer.
Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
- Elliot Masie
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Debt
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
- Josh Billings
Words pay no debts.
- William Shakespeare
If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
- Marcus Porcius Cato
Geek
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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The good thing with technical pressures is that technical questions always have a good answer.
- Linus Torvalds
Technology
The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.
- Cosmo
, Sneakers
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
- Douglas Adams
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, DEC President
, 1977
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles- Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
- Philip Greenspun
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