"Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Careers Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.”
“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”
“I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.”

Source : KETV NewsWatch 7 Interview, quoted in The Omaha Channel article, October 19, 2004.
“Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.”
“Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.”
“Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions”
“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”

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