Jack A. Pickus

Jack A. Pickus

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
Buddhist Proverb

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda Amichai

faber est suae quisque fortunae
Appius Claudius Caecus

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of wise men; seek what they sought.
Basho

To know recursion, you must first know recursion.
Anonymous

The power of imagination makes us infinte.
John Muir

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
Tupac Shakur

Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Ralph Charell

Programming is the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There’s an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.
Andy Hertzfeld

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

These days, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Warren Buffet