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Some more quotes:
Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. [Albert Einstein]

Perfection is achieved when nothing else can be removed.

Make it easy to fix problems and quality moves up. [Mike Schoeffler]

Don't look for answers in your office. Get your ideas and products in front of customers sooner, not later.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. [dubbed Linus' Law by Eric Steven Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar]

Whenever there is overcapacity coupled with falling prices, entrepreneurs attack. [Forbes]

We are attacking darkness as opposed to turning on the light. [Fred Gratzon]

It is almost impossible to retrofit quality.

Surrounded by computers, we still use pencils. [Mark Williams]

You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization. [Martin Fowler]

Alyosha's First Law of Organizational Change: Organizations don't change.

If you try to start a start-up right out of college and it tanks, you'll end up at 23 broke and a lot smarter.
Which, if you think about it, is roughly what you hope to get from a graduate program. [Paul Graham, Hiring is Obsolete]

Nothing in life is so exhilarating than to be shot at without result. [Winston Churchill]

There's no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. [Ronald Reagan]

Two weeks in the lab can save you two hours in the library. [Aaron F Stanton]

No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office. [Anna Quindlen]

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. [Warren Buffett]

You don't leap a chasm in two bounds. [Chinese Proverb]

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. [Buddha]

The oak trees of insurrection grow from the acorns of treachery. [Viking King Harold Godwinson]

5 comments, Misc, Monday, October 30, 2006 21:25

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'Surrounded by computers, we still use pencils' is my favourite. Having said that, I use a refillable, propelling pencil with eraser built in at the end. I prefer pencil to ink because it feels nicer to write with, and rubs out. I hate it when you have to use a pencil without a sharpener. You really wanted an essay on this, didn't you?!

Posted by: Mum on Monday, October 30, 2006 22:43
Ooo 'ark at you! "refillable propelling pencil"
I must admit - for Sudoku its got to be pencil.

Posted by: Tim on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 09:20
I have two actually. One of them is yours and I wish to complain that the eraser has perished.

Posted by: Mum on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 18:05
I think I'm totally misreading "Two weeks in the lab can save you two hours in the library." - to me I'd much rather be in the lab, even though it might take 168 times the time to find the answer.

Having said that, when the answer is plainly printed in the back of Bird and Wadler...

Posted by: John on Thursday, November 2, 2006 13:46
P.S. - jolly nice collection of quotes.

Posted by: John on Thursday, November 2, 2006 13:47

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