Michael E. Szymanczyk famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

  • Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

  • A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

  • The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

  • My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

  • Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

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