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- The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.
- Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable Business," by Louis E. Boone
- 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.
- Unknown
- For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
- What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg
- The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.
- Unknown
- All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
- Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Rodin (1840 - 1917)
- One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
- Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream"
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