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RE: Farewell Steem
Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at
least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They
tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often
when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you
from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump
all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish.
-- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to
excel in it.
-- Alberti
Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change
the world?
-- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)
We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when
we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of
reality.
-- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison
What is truth?
-- Pontius Pilate
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
-- Albert Einstein
Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to
think out every case.
-- Francis Glassborow
Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it
means facing the truth and then moving on.
-- George Leonard, Mastery.
La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à
faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à
faire.
-- Xavier Tartacover
If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what
got you excited in the first place.
-- David Gorman (ImThere.com)
The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it [Leadership].
-- Dwight D. Enseinhover.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan
Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even.
-- Paul Graham
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it)
in programming.
-- Donald Knuth
La connaissance d'un défaut ne l'enlève pas, elle nous torture jusqu'à sa
correction.
-- Daniel Lovewin (Guillaume Kpotufe)