Quotes

Collection of quotes that I found interesting or inspiring.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
— Mark Twain
After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldn’t be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.
— Thomas Edison
When everyone thinks the same, how much thinking is actually taking place?
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
— Jamie Zawinski, 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in comments.
— Kevlin Henney, twitter, 20 Sep 2013
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called to be more.
— Rita Dove via Rafał Szaniawski
Remember: DESTINY IS LARGELY A SET OF UNQUESTIONED ASSUMPTIONS
— Systemantics by John Gall