Favorite Quotes

[John]

Please share some of your favorite quotes in this thread. Here's one of mine:

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have." - Thomas Jefferson

[Chris]

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein

AND....

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

Stephen Hawking

AND.....

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”

Sir Isaac Newton

More to come...

[Billy]

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. I compare it to science vs. witchcraft. In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it -- but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it.

Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in knowledge.

-Linus Torvalds

[John]

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

[Nikki]

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well" -Unknown

"Holy uncanny photographic mental processes"-Robin

"The cosmic fish have spoken to me!"-Gonzo

"You dare agree with me? Prepare to meet your horrible doom!"-Invader Zim

[caldwell880]

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John W. Gardner

[tella.star]

"Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death." -- Ayn Rand

[aarathi]

My favorite is "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. " - Albert Eistein

[Outdust_Regna]

My favorite quote is:
"Loving is like living knowing you're gonna die; but not loving because you're afraid to get hurt is like killing yourself even before you die."

I got other quotes that I like but this one is my favorite.

[demondust]

mine is "if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough; it will be believed." - adolf hitler

[wainrob]

Also from Albert Einstein "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." and from John F. Kennedy "A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. "

[mye01]

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen." ~ Edward de Bono

[popoy]

My favorite quote is from Albert Einstein. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

[skater]

looks like most of us here are inspired by albert Einstein..
ok here is another one from AE.."

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."

- Albert Einstein
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[icecastles]

The greatness comes not when things always go good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.