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Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#52"If you don't have time to do it right, make sure you have time to do it again"
--My great-great grandfather
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#53What would you do if you were not afraid?
From Dr. Spencer Johnson's book, “Who Moved My Cheese?”
Often what is holding us back from doing something is fear. The fear might be important, but asking yourself what you would do if fear was not involved has helped me a lot over the years.
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#54"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)
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#55"aut inveniam viam aut faciam"
"I will find a way or make one"
Reputedly said by Hannibal when proposing taking his army (and elephants) across the alps.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#56We must know.
And we will know.
- Hilbert
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#57Amor fati. Love your fate.
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#58Si vis pacem, para bellum. I like it because it has wide applicability outside of literal violence; all of life is a struggle, and the more prepared for that one is, the easier life can be made.
That more generalized version could be that of the Boy Scouts - "Be Prepared".
... also popular in the socialist version of scouting across the iron curtain. In russian it became "Всегда готов!"
Young Pioneers à la Norman Rockwell: https://yablor.ru/blogs/valeriy-barikin-pionerskiy-pin-ap/61...
(if you prefer video format to surrounded-by-ads, they're all visible in the title roll for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpMndf0RPgQ&t=40
Line printed Vyssotsky samizdat hiding under Pravda @ 52:04. I see "Abba" and "Boney M" clearly on the camp counselor's tapes in the subsequent shot, but can't read the groups on the other tape.)
Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP_lVuPRIaY (Analogue Dance Music may not be the most precise genre, but it is, by definition, 100% DRM free.)
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#59“Focus on your high-order bit.”
-Kim Cameron
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#60All I ask for in life is an unfair advantage!