Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by RandoHolmes » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

superhuzza wrote: post #19

andrzeej wrote: post #11

Do it right, first fucking time.

Kind of surprising to hear this on a website that largely talks about software. Has any software ever been "right" the first time? I'm not sure.

The idea is to endeavor to be right, rather than purposefully cutting corners.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by psyc » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:19 AM UTC

Not sure I have a favorite motto, but my favorite amalgamation of mottos is Tohuvabohu by KMFDM.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by extremelearning » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:22 AM UTC

Kind heart. Kind thoughts. Kind words. Kind actions.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by tmaly » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:40 AM UTC

everyone is fighting their own battle

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leoh » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:56 AM UTC

“If you can piss while you walk, why not shit while you run?” —Aesop

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by harrydehal » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 1:00 AM UTC

Festina lente.

Or Latin for "make haste slowly."

Augustus deplored rashness in a military commander and one of his favorite phrases was such that "that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by playingchanges » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 1:14 AM UTC

‘If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. ’

- Kierkegaard

More quote than motto but something that has guided me through the years

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by randrus » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 1:47 AM UTC

Pay attention.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by cac1 » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 3:05 AM UTC

Few worthwhile efforts are successful on the first attempt.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by juangacovas » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 3:24 AM UTC

Pájaro viejo no entra en jaula (Spanish for "Senior bird doesn't enter cages")