Interesting quotes - Till 8th May 2017
- It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain
- It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.” --Mark Twain
- “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” --(Martin Fowler)
- "If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and two minutes later he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of a dynamic process, a molecular dance, and made a separate entity out of it." - Eckhart Tolle
- The secret of life is to "die before you die" and find that there is no death. - Eckhart Tolle
- “Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.” — Bob Gray
- "As long as lower schools prepare for high schools, high schools prepare for colleges, and colleges prepare for rat-race jobs in power-over systems, education won't change" - From the book 'Paradigm Conspiracy'
- "If we believe that these mothers were overweight because they ate too much, and we know the children are thin and stunted because they're not getting enough food, then we're assuming that the mothers were consuming superfluous calories that they could have given to their children to allow then to thrive. In other words, the mothers are willing to starve their children so that they themselves can overeat. This goes against everything we know about maternal behavior." - Gary Taubes(From the book - Why we get fat)
- When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” — Alexander Den Heijer
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