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Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?

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Re: Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?

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Post by ken »

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

Re: Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?

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Post by sutro »

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

For a true writer [hacker?] each book [project?] should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him. - Ernest Hemingway

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. -Fred Brooks

Programming...gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men. -Fred Brooks

Re: Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?

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Post by gebloom »

nreece wrote: post #7

Shakespeare' quote:"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt." From: What They Don’t Tell You About Being An Entrepreneur ( http://how2livelife.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-they-dont-tell... )

Sounds like George Bush.
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