"Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way."

-- Richard Hamming

#Hard Work Quotes #Different Quotes #Way Quotes

“If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.”
“Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”

Source : Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28
“We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it”
“With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.
“Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Gardner from Feb 21, 2012
“I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.”
“A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.”
“A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.”

Source : David Shields (2013). “How Literature Saved My Life”, p.197, Vintage

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