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Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
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#412A goal without a plan is just a wish.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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#413A corny phrase that's had an outsized effect on me is, "Esteemable people do esteemable things."
Do you imagine yourself to be the kind of person who does x, y, and z? Or are you actually the kind of person who does?
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#414Janky shit will always come back to haunt you.
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#415Een schip op het strand is een baken in zee.
[A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.]
- the Dutch proverb Frederick Brooks uses to kick off Chapter One of "The Mythical Man-month". Why, yes, as a matter of fact I AM in IT security. Why do you ask? :)
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#416He conquers who conquers himself!
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#417" I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in. " - Linus Torvalds (TED Talk 2016)
Linus Torvalds: > I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in. Apollo 11 engineers: > ok boomer.
Funny thing about this is that the time of the Apollo program, Boomers were the young punks.
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#419If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing yourself.
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#420Not one, but a couple I utter everyday (to my kids): 1. "You get what you get and you don't get upset" 2. "Don't worry about that which you cannot control" The last is the deepest one which I struggle the most with: "When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place!" - attributed to Chu…
I live somewhere where "pen" == "pin" in pronunciation, so it's, "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit."
first thing I thought of when I read this: 'Git-R-Done' by Larry the cable guy