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Perfect is the enemy of good

Voltaire

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Calculation and reasoning, like weaving and ploughing, are work, not for human souls, but for clever combinations of iron and wood

Mary Boole

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A Certain Darkness Is Needed to See the Stars

Osho

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A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.

Unknown

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Any path that narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap.

The Spacing Guild Handbook

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Meaning can easily be confused with structure. Structure is a good approximation, but not the same

Claudia Perlich

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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas

Shirley Chisholm

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We are what we amplify

Unknown

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

Leonardo da Vinci

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Nothing will work unless you do

Maya Angelou

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It is the fate of manufactured goods to slowly and gently depreciate as they get old... but it is the fate of operating systems to become free

Neal Stephenson

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The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Neil Gershenfeld​

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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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I don't want to be part of a world, where being kind is a weakness

Keanu Reeves

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As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

Benjamin Franklin

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect

Adam Osborne

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I am one of the people who love the why of things

Catherine the Great

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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

Walt Disney

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants

Isaac Newton

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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures

Charles Babbage

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If I want to live in a world I like, I have to help create it

Caroline Caldwell

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it

Margaret Fuller

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What separates design from art is that design is meant to be … functional.

Cameron Moll

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Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Neville Brody

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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done

Marie Curie

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It’s not a bug. It’s an undocumented feature!

Anonymous

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Every person is born with a creative mind. Everyone has the ability

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner

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A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

Tim Berners-Lee

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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced

James Baldwin

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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it

Dorothy L. Sayers

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In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

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The miracle is this: The more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success

Nikola Tesla

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The most dangerous phrase in the language is, We’ve always done it this way

Grace Hopper

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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Edsger Dijkstra

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Failing to prepare is preparing to fail

Benjamin Franklin

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Let us stand on each other’s shoulders, not each other’s toes

Dennis Allison

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Achieving a goal provides immediate satisfaction; the process of achieving a goal is a lasting pleasure

Evelyn Berezin

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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration

Nikola Tesla

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The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Confucius

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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere

Isaac Asimov

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Artists are here to disturb the peace

James Baldwin

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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

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I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!

Vidiu Platon

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One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job.

Jessica Gaston

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Don't fight forces, use them

R. Buckminster Fuller

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

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The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting

Plutarch

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If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

Morpheus in The Matrix

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The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there

Gordon Bell

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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

Oswald Chambers

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There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Morpheus in The Matrix

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What I cannot create, I do not understand

Richard Feynman

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Take the tools in hand and carve your own best life

Douglas Lurton

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The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds

Theo Jansen

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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew

Marshall McLuhan

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If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0.

Unknown

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else

George Halas

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The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Ada Lovelace

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You're only gien one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it

Robin Williams

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Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius

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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

Milton Berle

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Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works

Michael Hartung

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He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Confucius

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field

Niels Bohr

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between... work and play

L. P. Jacks

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

Samuel Beckett

"v... programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge

Grace Hopper

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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well

Rene Descartes

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This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen

Lancelot Hogben

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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Every great dream begins with a dreamer

Harriet Tubman

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If you get, give. If you learn, teach

Maya Angelou