Quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. — Thomas Carlyle

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. — Elbert Hubbard

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction. — Warren Buffett

The question is not who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. — Malcolm Forbes

If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose. — George Eliot

The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. — Albert Ellis

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. — Milton Berle

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Mark Twain

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. — NASA

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. — Debbi Fields

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. — Dr. Seuss

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain

Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness . . . happiness [is] when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have. — Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all. — Oscar Wilde

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. — Napoleon Hill

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mahatma Gandhi

A year from now you may wish you had started today. — Karen Lamb

Live simply, so others may simply live. — Mahatma Gandhi

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. — Albert Einstein

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. — Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. — John Le Carre

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do. — Elbert Hubbard

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). — Faith Popcorn

“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.” — David Ramsey