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Thinkers |
Thoughts |
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Luck is
preparation meeting opportunity. |
| George Carlin
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"Pablo Casals was 94 and still practicing three hours a day and someone said to him, 'Why do you still paractice three hours a day?' And he said, 'I'm Beginning to notice some improvement.'"
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Live as if you
were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. |
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N.W. Dougherty |
The ideal engineer is a composite. He is not
a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist
or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any
or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. |
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Albert Einstein |
If we knew what it was we were doing, it
would not be called research, would it? |
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Thomas Edison |
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000
ways that won't work |
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Yoda |
Do, or do not. There is no 'try' |
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Thomas Jefferson |
I find that the harder I work, the more luck
I seem to have. |
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General Patton |
If a man does his best, what else is there? |
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H. G. Wells |
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. |
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Henry Ford |
Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal. |
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Henry David Thoreau |
Success usually comes to those who are too
busy to be looking for it |
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The mind is like a parachute, it works best
when it is opened. |
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Thomas Edison |
Opportunity is
missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and
looks like work. |
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Dizzy Dean |
It ain’t
braggin’ if you can do it. |
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Wood Allen |
Eighty percent
of success is showing up. |
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John Wanamaker |
I know half of
my money is wasted on advertising… I just don’t know which half. |
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Victor Hugho |
Where the
telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two have the
grander view? |
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To the
optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is
half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it
needs to be. |
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A good
scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas
as possible. |
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An engineer is
someone who is good with figures, but doesn't have the
personality of an accountant. |
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EW Dijkstra |
Computer
science is no more about computers than astronomy is about
telescopes. |
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Thomas Edison |
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Vince Lombardi |
It’s not
whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.
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The only time
success comes before work is in the dictionary. |
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Wayne Gretzky |
You miss 100%
of the shots you don't take. |
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It's not what you know, it's what you do with what you know.
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Coleman Hawking |
You don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. |
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Every great achievement was once considered impossible.
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Indira Gandhi |
There are two kinds of people, those that do the work and those
that take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is
less competition there. |
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Only dead fish go with the current. |
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Corrie Ten Boom |
Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of
its strength. |
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James CNova |
There are as many opportunities as the stars in the sky, but
you'll never reach them by gazing at them. |
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you're at.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get. |
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Plato |
Those who seek power are invariably the
least fit to wield it. |
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Education reflects rays of possibility. |
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Albert Einstein |
Three rules of work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. |
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Albert Einstein |
In theory, facts determine theory, but in
fact theory determines facts. Ultimately everything is either
philosophy or theology |
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O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law |
Murphy was an optimist |
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Murphy's Law |
If anything can go wrong, it will |
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The Unspeakable Law |
As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away, if
it's bad, it happens. |
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Nonreciprocal Law of Expectations |
Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive
expectations yield negative results. |
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Howe's Law |
Every man has a scheme that will not work. |
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Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving Systems Dynamics |
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to
use a larger can. |
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Etorre's Observation |
The other line moves faster. |
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Skinner's Constant (Flannagan's Finagling Factor) |
That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added
to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives the answer you
should have gotten.
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Law of Selective Gravity |
An object will fall so as to do the most damage. |
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Jennings Corollary |
The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is
directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. |
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Gordon's First Law |
If a research project is not worth doing, it is not worth doing
well. |
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Maier's Law |
f the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed
of. |
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Hoare's Law of Larger Problems |
Inside every large problem is a smaller problem struggling to
get out. |
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Boren's First Law |
When in doubt, mumble. |
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The Golden Rule |
Whoever has the gold makes the rules. |
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Barth's/Boulding's Distinction: |
There are two types of people: those that divide people into two
types, and those that do not. |
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Segal's Law |
A person with one watch knows what time it is. A person with two
watches is never sure. |
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Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Management |
The first 90 percent of the project takes ninety percent of the
time, and the last ten- percent takes the other ninety percent. |
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Farber's Fourth Law |
Necessity is the mother of strange bed fellows. |
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Lautermilch's First Law |
The first report is always wrong. |
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Lautermilch's Second Law |
Progress is always faster in the wrong direction. |
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