Quotes

“The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.”

– Zen Philosophy

“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.”

– Russell H Ewing

“I’ve always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing. So make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life. You won’t be able to do what’s really important to you.”

– Richard Stallman

“Effective interview process: interviewing is a two-way process. During the interview, the interviewee is evaluating the company by the interviewing question quality. I’d suggest this is one of the most efficient ways to understand your potential coworkers. I felt that questions I got from Quora were interesting and challenging and gave me confidence that their selection process will choose good people. I was also impressed by my interviewers.”

– ACRush (Tiancheng Lou) on joining Quora

“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”

– Henry Rollins

“If you want to become a good programmer, you can spend 10 years programming, or spend 2 years programming and learning algorithms.”

– Erik Demaine

“To use an analogy, if algorithms were about automobiles, it would be for the person who wants to know how cars work, how they are built, and how one might design fuel-efficient, safe, reliable vehicles for the 21st century. The people who hate algorithms are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.”

– Peter Norvig

“I think the value of getting a great education - that is going to college - is easy to underestimate. The most interesting jobs require a college education. The STEM related jobs are probably the most interesting although they are not for everyone. The value of staying curious - reading a lot and learning new things even after college is also underestimated.”

– Bill Gates (found in reddit AMA)

“Curly braces lead to anger. Anger leads to fear. Fear leads to suffering.”

– Kensanata on #emacs

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

– Albert Einstein

“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

– Linus Torvalds

“If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people’s backs and heads.”

– Nietzsche

“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expression.” Now they have two problems.”

– Jamie Zawinski (found in comp.emacs.xemacs)

“Another strategy is to ignore the fact that you are slowly killing yourself by not sleeping and exercising enough. That frees up several hours a day. The only downside is that you get fat and die.”

– Scott Adams

“Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. If things aren’t going well it probably means you are learning a lot and things will go better later.”

– Randy Pausch

“Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”

– Captain John Parker