Re:Ask HN: What is/are your favorite quote(s)?
by JoshTriplett on Sunday September 06, 2015 @03:04AM
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A few of my favorites on various topics:
I won't be able to answer all your questions. Rather, I can show you how to be lost productively, and how to become comfortable not knowing things and teaching yourself. -- David Humphrey, Mozilla developer
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...' -- Isaac Asimov
There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. -- Donald E. Knuth
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen
I won't be able to answer all your questions. Rather, I can show you how to be lost productively, and how to become comfortable not knowing things and teaching yourself. -- David Humphrey, Mozilla developer
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...' -- Isaac Asimov
There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. -- Donald E. Knuth
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen