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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
-- Buddhist Proverb
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
-- George Orwell
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
-- John Dryden
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
-- Yehuda Amichai
faber est suae quisque fortunae
-- Appius Claudius Caecus
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of wise men; seek what they sought.
-- Basho
To know recursion, you must first know recursion.
-- Anonymous
The power of imagination makes us infinte.
-- John Muir
Always drink gin with a mark, kid. He can't tell if you cut it.
-- Paul Newman (The Sting)
Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
-- Ralph Charell
Programming is the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.
-- Andy Hertzfeld
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.
-- Julius Caesar from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
These days, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
-- Warren Buffet