Favourite Quotes and One Liners

small minds discuss people,
big minds discuss events,
great minds discuss ideas,
genius act silently.
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A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.
-- Einstein
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Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: QA testers don't change anything. They just report that it's dark.
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Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one. But the house falls down.
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Software is Too Important to be Left to Programmers
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In theory, theory and practice are the same;
in practice they are not.
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Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God
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We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
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Programming is a lot like sex. One mistake and you could have to support it the rest of your life.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity.
But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a Pearl... so choose the best place where You would shine..
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Everybody makes mistakes..that's why they put erasers on pencils
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what's right isn't always popular...and what's popular isn't always right
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The office is like a tree full of monkeys trying to climb up. The monkeys on the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes
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Leave your kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing
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Spending your life waiting for the messiah to come save the world is like waiting around for the straight piece to come in Tetris.
Even if it comes, by that time you've accumulated a mountain of shit so high that you're fucked no matter what you do.
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The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
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Hope is a good thing and no good thing dies
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Success is not an accident. It begins with a well-conceived plan.
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If you can dream it, you can achieve it
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If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
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God Gives every bird it's food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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To handle yourself, use your head.
To handle others, use your heart.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man
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If anything can go wrong, it will — at the worst possible moment. Murphy Law
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A programmer started to cuss
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
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Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix.
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"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." - Arnold Bennett
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best
thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." Theodore Roosevelt
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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say,
a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
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When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds...
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The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Why don't Libraries carry books on suicide? ...... bcoz They'd never get returned?
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Einstein
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There are 3 rings of marriage.
the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. - Malcolm Forbes
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"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." - Woodrow Wilson
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Einstein
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It is easier to reshape a mountain or a river than a person's character
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Do not be too bothered by others words if our conscience is clear
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You can never have everyone praise you, nor will everyone condemn you.
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. - Einstein
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Be a tail to lions and not a head to foxes.
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Don't go the way life takes you but take the life the way you go.
Remember you are born to live and not living because you are born...
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If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
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The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. Excellence is a drive from inside, not outside.
Excel at a task today - not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction.
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As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. -Einstein
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
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If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. -Einstein