[crazy4laptops]

got some favorite inspirational quotes, share and discuss here

i'll start with this one

man who is smart, doesn't improve upon perfection

[WinTard]

Overcooking is as bad as undercooking. You must cook it just right. ~ JustDoIT
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. ~ Lucie Rubens (my grandmother) Translation: Better is the enemy of good enough. Have you tried translate.google.com?
It is not enough to aim; you must hit. {Italian Proverb}

Before you can win a race, you must first finish without crashing. ~ JustDoIT (elsewhere aka WinTard here...)

The only constant is change. ~ Confucius

The words of truth are always paradoxical. ~ Lao Tzu

[coastie65]

Those who make no mistakes, never learn.

[crazy4laptops]

excellence is never an accident

[WinTard]

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
~ Joyce Brothers
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford, 1893-1979, Actress and Producer
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
~ Confucius

If you fail to plan... you're planning to fail.
{Chinese Proverb}

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
~ Lao Tzu

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
William Feather

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
~ B.C. Forbes, 1880-1954, Scottish Journalist

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~ George E. Woodbury, 1855-1930, American Literary Critic and

Try not to think of every issue in terms of winning and losing. That won't be easy but you will achieve more if you keep a sense of perspective. Winning isn't everything, nor is losing.
~ Sally Brompton

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
~ The Dalai Lama

[number6]

It has been said, and all too often ignored, if you live beyond your means, you will be forced to live beneath your means.

Living and consuming on borrowed money always end. Lenders, even in an age of inflation, have their limits.

---A Congressman of the Austrian school of economics

[WinTard]

Better change, before you have to.
{Wise Proverb}

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
~ James Gordon



To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
~ Winston Churchill


Reason should direct and appetites obey.
~ Cicero

[number6]

Hey, folks, you know IMDB.com (The Internet Movie Database) has lots of great quotations from movies. It's a truly remarkable site for all the good information it has.

[WinTard]

Strive for excellence, not perfection.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
~ Vince Lombardi

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
~ Confucius

There are three kinds of people: Those who make the parade, those who watch the parade, and those who are oblivious there is a parade going on.
~ Unknown Source

There are exactly 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
~ A.Nerd

[JaywalkerExtraordinaire]

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned." --Fast Eddie Felson, The Color Of Money (1986)

[mcbarker]

Two of my favorites are
"A man has to know his limitations"
Clint Eastwood in the movie, Magnum Force.
and
"This above all: To thine own self be true..."
From the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare.
I feel that these are good words to live by.

[AuroraDizon]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato





Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ~ Plato










If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)










I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keilor










It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney










If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France Jacques Anatole Thibault

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte










Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number
of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and
Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown










Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream.
Mark Twain









Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James R. Cook










I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Ben Franklin










"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great."
Mark Twain










"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt










"Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare. "
Japanese Proverb










"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "
Ann Landers










Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that has.
Margaret Meade










"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

[snorg]

Snorg's definition of an "Expert"




An EX is a has been, and a Spirt is a drip under pressure.......

[WinTard]

Good point. You see, I found a few at imdb, yet didn't realize what you said, until you said it! You are the catalyst! Knowledge and understanding? Same difference? Or not? I usually just google it... Google is simply outstanding IMHO. Thanks to you, I shall research imdb more. Movies are fun!


Size matters not.
~ Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
~ Yoda

Walk on road, hmm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no." You karate do "guess so," -- just like grape. Understand?
~ Mr. Miyagi in the movie ‘The Karate Kid'

I usually get my daily ration of food for thought at selfgrowth.com, and subscribe to their interesting newsletters. They always contain cool quotes from distinguished people. Then when I discover someone I didn't know about, I simply google it deeper...

[WinTard]

Some funny quotes (with apologies to the sensitive types):

What do IT people and golfers have in common?

Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
~Michael Sinz

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
~Harlan Mills

The toughest golf course is: The Intercourse. No matter how many strokes, you will never get all your balls in the hole.
~ A golfing enthusiast

The procedure is to remove and clean your customer's balls.
~ IBM mouse service manual

[WinTard]

Make sure your code 'does nothing' gracefully.
P. J. Plauger

Let the data structure the program.
~P. J. Plauger

Don't patch bad code - rewrite it.
~P. J. Plauger

Test input for validity and plausibility.
~P. J. Plauger

Take care to branch the right way on equality.
~P. J. Plauger

Make your programs read from top to bottom.
~P. J. Plauger

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
~Brian W. Kernighan

[coastie65]

[quote name='WinTard']Google is simply outstanding IMHO. .Sure comes in handy when doing the crosswords at times. :D coastie

[coastie65]

WinTard said:

Some funny quotes (with apologies to the sensitive types):

What do IT people and golfers have in common?


Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
~Michael Sinz


Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
~Harlan Mills


The toughest golf course is: The Intercourse. No matter how many strokes, you will never get all your balls in the hole.
~ A golfing enthusiast


The procedure is to remove and clean your customer's balls.
~ IBM mouse service manual

Ummm, not quite sure how to rate this. "PG-13" seems to be a Stretch, and "R" seems seems at bit harsh. Very funny though. coastie

[coastie65]

WinTard said:

Make sure your code 'does nothing' gracefully.
P. J. Plauger

Let the data structure the program.
~P. J. Plauger

Don't patch bad code - rewrite it.
~P. J. Plauger

Test input for validity and plausibility.
~P. J. Plauger

Take care to branch the right way on equality.
~P. J. Plauger

Make your programs read from top to bottom.
~P. J. Plauger

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
~Brian W. Kernighan

I'm not a programmer as I never got past Basic, but it makes sense to me. coastie

[WinTard]

In reference to some of Murphy's Laws:

* Interchangeable parts, won't.

* Compatible parts aren't.
The following 'essay' (or ultra-long quote) appears appropriate: http://www.unc.edu/~...its/large.html]

To whet the appetite, here is an excerpt of this page with respects to the author's wishes with the suggestion to click onto the URL to get the full unadulterated picture...

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h2. |How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
© [rowlett@email.unc.edu] and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|[Table of Contents
About the Dictionary
Using the Dictionary|
Names for Large Numbers
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The result of all this is widespread confusion. Anyone who uses the words "billion" and "trillion" internationally should make clear which meaning of those words is intended. On the Internet, some sites outside the U.S. use the compound designation "milliard/billion" to designate the number 1 000 000 000. In science, the names of large numbers are usually avoided completely by using the appropriate SI prefixes. Thus 10^9^ watts is a gigawatt and 10^12^ joules is a terajoule. Such terms cannot be mistaken.
There is no real hope of resolving the controversy in favor of either system. Americans are not likely to adopt the European nomenclature, and Europeans will always regard the American system as an imposition. However, it is possible to imagine a solution: junk both Latin-based systems and move to a Greek-based system in which, for n > 3, the Greek number n is used to generate a name for 10^3^^n^. (The traditional names thousand and million are retained for n = 1 and 2 and the special name gillion, suggested by the SI prefix giga-, is proposed for n = 3.)
...
This process can be continued indefinitely, but one has to stop somewhere. The name centillion (n = 100) has appeared in many dictionaries. A centillion is 10^303^ (1 followed by 303 zeroes) in the American system and a whopping 10^600^ (1 followed by 600 zeroes) in the European system.

Finally, there is the googol, the number 10^100^ (1 followed by 100 zeroes). Invented more for fun than for use, the googol lies outside the regular naming systems. The googol equals 10 duotrigintillion in the American system, 10 sexdecilliard in the European system, and 10 triacontatrillion in the proposed Greek-based system.

The googolplex (1 followed by a googol of zeroes) is far larger than any of the num
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Which leads to the question as to What is Google?

In the past, but it appears to have been obfuscated at the moment, the mission of Google was to:

Index the sum of all information in the Universe to the betterment of Mankind. And it has been estimated that the Entire Universe does not contain a googolplex number of particles... Thus the name Google.

As to what now Google's official verbiage is: www.google.com/corporate/ an interesting read.

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As for Yahoo's mission, again like google, it now has been sanitized, but in the early days, the acronym YAHOO stood for: Yet Another Holistic Outstanding Orifice with a vortex logo ... For real!