"Let your life be guided by greatness"

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Matthew Kelly

#Greatness Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.”
“IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.”
“My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.”
“A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.”
“When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.”
“Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
“I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.”
“I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951

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