Quotes

Here are quotes that I have collected, but have nowhere else to place purposefully at the moment:

cicero#

Cicero

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

steve brown#

Steve Brown

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you learn to do it well.”

chopin#

Chopin

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

jack kerouac#

Jack Kerouac

“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple”

latin#

Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to love

einstein#

Albert Einstein

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

h ford#

H. Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

porter#

M.E. Porter

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

sun tzu#

Sun Tzu

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win numerous battles without jeopardy.

fp brooks#

F.P. Brooks, 1975

Representation is the essence of programming.

a turing#

“Intelligent Machinery,” A.M.Turing, 1948

The machine can alter the scanned symbol and its behavior is in part determined by that symbol, but the symbols on the tape elsewhere do not affect the behavior of the machine.

reinhold niebuhr#

Reinhold Niebuhr

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

cal newport#

Cal Newport

“Deep Work — Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit.”

comparison#

Theodore Roosevelt

“Comparison is the thief of joy”

virgil#

Virgil (experto credite, Aeneid XI)

“Learn from an expert.”