“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
“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 (found in Prof. Remzi’s website)
“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