Wise Words
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new!” – Albert Einstein
“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire
hydrant.” – Mitchell
Kapor
“When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it
and make trial after trial until it comes.” – Thomas A. Edison
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
– Frank Borman
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
– Sir Isaac Newton
“I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.”
– Oliver North
“To lead the people, walk behind them.”
– Lao-Tzu
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
– John F. Kennedy
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. ”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”
– Charles de Gaulle
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
– Alexander the Great
“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
– George S. Patton
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.
You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
– E. W. Dijkstra
“The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.”
– Bill Gates
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On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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– Charles Babbage
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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– Rick Cook
