quotes

A collection of quotes I like.

  • Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress. - American computer scientist Fred Brooks
  • Assumption is the mother of all f__k-ups. - The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert movie
  • Un jour j’irai vivre en théorie, parce qu’en théorie, tout se passe bien. (One day I will go live in theory, because in theory, everything goes well.) - French humorist Pierre Desproges (?)
  • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - American poet Robert Frost
  • To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. - Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty. - computer scientist Sara Hooker
  • Slow down to gain time.
  • The amount of good things in life depends on your ability to see them.
  • If you have really high ambitious, you achieve great things even if you fail. If you have low ambitions, you achieve nothing even if you suceed.
  • Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play. - English actor John Cleese
  • It’s not about talent. It’s about who can keep going the longest without needing proof of the progress.
  • Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive. - American theologian Howard Thurman
  • When you’ve finished your own toilet in the morning, then it’s time to attend to the toilet of your planet. - The Little Prince book
  • I do not have time for things that have no soul. - Charles Bukowski (?)
  • I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those. - Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci
  • We master our ideas, which are nothing, but not our emotions, which are all. - Masculin Féminin movie of Jean-Luc Godard
  • The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. - German physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg