quotes

0) Be twice as productive and twice as nice!! (7-Mar-12)

Be twice as productive and twice as nice!!

James Q Wilson

1) All advice is true (14-Jan-12)

All Advice is true,
Let's go!

All Sayings are true,
Let's go!

All Truisms are true,
Let's go!

Let's go,
and Do!!!

2) The only way to do great work is to love what you do - Steve Jobs (6-Oct-11)

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do,"

Steve Jobs - While delivering a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University

3) What acceptable audit canst thou leave? (1-Apr-11)

Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?

- Shakespeare, Sonnet IV

4) 18 Day Uprising of Egypt: A Democratic Discourse (12-Feb-11)

Little else need be said

5) Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers (31-Jan-11)

- Fred Brooks on process responding to an interview in Aug 2010, Wired.

In the same interview he speaks of Edwin Land, inventor of Polaroid, having quoted

More advice from Fred Brooks

6) To Try (20-Jan-11)

Goal Insufficient,
Courage seem to waver.
Sweep and gather heart,
For To Try is the Goal.

7) To make memories, step out of your comfort zone (12-Mar-10)

To make memories, step out of your comfort zone

-John Sexton, President, NYU

in a conversation with Bill Moyers

Reference to the program

8) Difference between success and failure may just be enthusiasm (10-Jul-09)

Difference between success and failure may just be enthusiasm

9) Ice Climibing - Ybarra (25-Apr-09)

As much as I enjoy ice climbing it's one of those activities that I often wish were over while I'm actually doing it

10) Place of Pride (2-Feb-09)

Grace, wisdom and beauty you may enjoy, but beware pride, which alone can tarnish all the rest

- A latin inscription at "Crac des Chevaliers" of Western Syria

11) Freedom in daily choices is essential for practical reasons.... (26-Jan-09)

- Philip K Howard

Most things happen through the usual process of trial and error by which we feel our way to success

- Michael Polanyi

We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

- Abraham Lincoln

within which men should be inviolable.

- Isaiah Berlin

12) Deserving Success and Getting it (17-Jan-09)

People do not object to artists deserving success - only to their getting it

- Max Harrison

13) Staring at Death (17-Jan-09)

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. ...Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool i've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."

- 2005, Steve Jobs

14) All to the furrow, nothing to the grave - George Santayana (20-Dec-08)

Excerpt..

I give back to the earth what the earth gave
All to the furrow, nothing to the grave.

15) Few things move as quietly as the future (11-Jul-08)

Bern Williams

16) ..and she my rising sun - George Eliot (5-May-08)

In darkest shades if she appear, 
My dawning is begun; 
She is my soul's bright morning star, 
And she my rising sun. 

George Eliot

17) .. against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God (5-Apr-08)

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God

Aeschylus

18) I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short (5-Jan-08)

Blaise Pascal

19) Nothing great ever happens with out enthusiasm (5-Jan-08)

Not sure who said it or what the origin is