"If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!"

-- Evander Holyfield

#Wish Quotes #Singers Quotes #Wow Quotes

“Perhaps itâ€™s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are whatâ€™s important in life.”
“There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.”
“My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.”
“I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.”
“If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that no mathematician of any age or country has ever surpassed Gauss in the combination of an abundant fertility of invention with an absolute vigorousness in demonstration...”

Source : Henry John Stephen Smith (1965). “Collected Mathematical Papers”, p.74, American Mathematical Soc.
“There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.”
“The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.”
“Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.”

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