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“I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.”
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“To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.”
Source : Gerald James Holton (1986). “The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.183, CUP Archive
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“Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.”
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“If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone”
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“To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.”
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“In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you’ll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you’ll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem.”
Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.20, Pearson Education
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“He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.”
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“I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.”
