Monday, May 17, 2010

Quotes

You know you've achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
- Jacques Derrida

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
- Sir Frederick G. Banting

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a
collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
- John Gaule

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
- Shana Alexander

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S Truman

Source : http://pavel.physics.sunysb.edu/~likharev/personal/Quotes.pdf

1 comment:

B said...

Some of the quotes I enjoyed that you didn't share:

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.- Thomas A. Edison

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis