"Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy."

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Source : "Rob Pike Responds". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. October 18, 2004.

Rob Pike

#Listening Quotes #Language Quotes #Unix Quotes

“Solving a problem for which you know thereâ€™s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And itâ€™s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”

Source : Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.34, Picador
“If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.”
“To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.”
“Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.”
“The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.”

Source : "What's Up With All These Planes Landing At The Wrong Airport?" by Robert Bateman, www.esquire.com. February 10, 2014.
“Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).”
“Business schools do most things very well. They are just not comprehensive and what they miss are things like culture and creativity and a certain kind of pattern recognition that comes easily to people trained in the liberal arts.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.”

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