Quotes

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

Always drink gin with a mark, kid. He can’t tell if you cut it.
– Paul Newman (The Sting)

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