Category: Quotations
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Compassion
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism
I weep when I think about the text processing written in C under my managerial watch because the programmer didn’t know Perl. Considering that there are much better scripting tools for much of what gets programmed in Java and C++, perhaps the question should be whether Java and C++ scale to enterprise projects.Ronald P. Loui,…
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Keep rowing
As one goes through life one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.Katharine Hepburn
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Delegation
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.Will Rogers
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Failure
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t. Failure is part of what makes us human.Amber Deckers
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Longing
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”John Greenleaf Whittier