"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." - SJ
Ask HN: What quote most inspires you?
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#42I like this eloquent poem by Piet Hein, a favorite of Donald Knuth's I believe:
The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
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#43It's easy to make something 'Idiot Proof' because idiots are easily discouraged; but nothing will stop a demented fool with a screwdriver.
Reminds me of Douglas Adam's great quote, "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Re: Ask HN: What quote most inspires you?
#44If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
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#45"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
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#46"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit, and you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'OK, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high." - Ayrton Senna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrto…
ayee! Another fan of Senna :)
Re: Ask HN: What quote most inspires you?
#47"Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and a son-of-a-bitch." -- Peter McArthur
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#48- I don't know where we are going, but we are getting there very fast.
- Hope is not a strategy.
- Hope is an expensive emotion.
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#49Dreams are not what happen when you sleep, dreams should be what keep you from sleeping. - (not sure who said this)