March 2009
94 posts
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
– Mother Theresa
“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other...”
– Eugene Kennedy
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried...”
– George Washington
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan
“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”
– Kim Hubbard
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
– G. W. F. Hegel
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They’re only truly great who are truly good.”
– George Chapman
“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out...”
– Orison Swett Marden
“There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving...”
– Buck Rodgers
“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”
– Mother Theresa
“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by...”
– William Makepeace Thackeray
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.”
– Horace, Odes (Latin, “Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.”)
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For,...”
– Margaret Mead
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit...”
– H. Ross Perot
“Illegitimis non carborundum.”
– Gen. Joseph Stilwell (Latin, “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”)
“He conquers who endures.”
– Persius
“Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals…with their...”
– Anonymous
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.”
– Sir Theodore Martin
“If a train station is where the train stops, what’s a workstation…?”
– Anonymous
“One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The...”
– Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come...”
– Richard Bach
“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts...”
– James Allen
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful...”
– Vaclav Havel
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t...”
– Ann Landers
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only...”
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– John Gall
“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have...”
– Dave Parnas
“There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.”
– Anonymous
“The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything — and...”
– William Strong
“There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not...”
– Charles Baudelaire
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“I had applied for the nuclear submarine program, and Admiral Rickover was...”
– Jimmy Carter
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those
who matter don’t mind...”
– Dr. Seuss
“To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the...”
– Albert Einstein
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him… The...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. The more I realize I...”
– Albert Einstein
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound...”
– Thomas Edison
“(I)
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in....”
– Portia Nelson, “Autobiography in Five Short Chapters” from There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk
“…Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side,
Withstand the...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Friendship (excerpt)
“Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be...”
– Luke 12:48
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself....”
– Matthew 6:34