"The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken."

-- Plato

#Leadership Quotes #Taken Quotes #New Beginnings Quotes

“The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.”

Source : "The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate". In a Usenet message, January 29, 1992.
“The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.”

Source : Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”
“Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.”

Source : Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.16, Crown Archetype
“Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.”
“I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.”
“I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.”
“If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.”
“In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.”

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