"If you want to build a ship don't drum up people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.
The IETF motto is "rough consensus and running code"
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Now, Jack Straw isn't an *entirely* bad human being. But when I told him I was flying to Rwanda, his reaction was "Oh, yes. Rwanda. Now, what have we got to do there? Ah, yes, make sure British Airways gets the contract to fly there."
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Hmm, think I need to reboot. Good old SuSE, making GNU/Linux seem like Windows.
Conciousness us in the first place not a matter of "I think" but of "I can."
You fool! You know you should never mix your drinks!
In spiritual practice there are only two things; you sit and you sweep the garden. And it doesn't matter how big the garden is.
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
A fool sees an enemy. A wise man sees a lesson to be learned
Be the change you wish to see in the world
Everyone by now presumably knows about the dangers of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - deciding too early what a program should do.
"The key to stacking a panel is being able to choose the moderator." and "Analysts: Analysts sell out - that's their business model."
He said, "Let me pass on an axiom about our species, Nicholas: Never take another human being literally." He added, "Even if they are so ignorant that they do not know what 'literally' means."
The way to accomplish a great endeavor is with tremendous relaxation