"Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed."

-- Richard E. Pattis

#Running Quotes #Learning Quotes #Important Quotes

“Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.”
“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”
“No decision about me without me.”
“Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.”
“One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."”
“Lord Jesus, I'm going to obey you, and love you, and serve you, and do what you want me to do, as long as I live even if I go to Hell at the end of the road, simply because YOU ARE WORTHY TO BE LOVED, AND OBEYED, AND SERVED, and I 'm not trying to make a deal with you!”
“I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.”
“I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.”

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