Some Favorite
Quotes
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“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient
what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker
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“A manager should be like the sweeper in curling: The sweeper
runs ahead of the stone and sweeps away debris from the path of the stone so
that the progress of the stone will be smooth and undisturbed.” Richard P. Gabriel ·
“If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer
many paper cuts.” Scott E. Fahlman ·
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad,
and that is my religion.” Abraham Lincoln ·
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also
be intelligent.” Alan Turing, 1947 ·
"If you don't know where
you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." ·
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle (commenting on the need for a
multiple-context mechanism in knowledge representation) · "If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon." Scott E. Fahlman, with apologies to
Harry S Truman ·
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!” ·
“The
author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the
same name.” ·
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it
whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong
remedy.” Ernest Benn ·
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting
of a fire.” Attributed to
William Butler Yeats ·
“So much
of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to
work.” Peter Drucker ·
“The trouble with
having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.” Terry Pratchett ·
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgment.” Often attributed to Jim Horning, who
in turn attributes it to the Sufi sage/fool Mulla
Nasrudin, born circa 1208. ·
“Don't worry about
people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their
throats.” Howard Aiken ·
“The
skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can
think.” ·
“The early bird may get the worm, but it’s the second
mouse who gets the cheese.” Source Unknown ·
“The purpose of time is to keep everything from happening
at once. Source Unknown ·
“Writing is easy.
All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood
form on your forehead.” Gene Fowler ·
"The
great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between
one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to
long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." George Orwell ·
“Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also
mortis.” Robert Heilbroner ·
“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do
with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” Susan Ertz ·
“We like to praise birds for their ability to fly, but how
much of that is actually flying, and how much is just coasting from the last
flap?” Jack Handey
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“Never attribute to
malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Source Unknown ·
“Never eat more than you can lift.” Miss Piggy |