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------------------------------------------------------------- "If you have a mountain of shit to move, how much time should you spend looking for a bigger shovel? There's no obviously correct answer - it must depend on the size of the mountain, the availability of large shovels, how quickly you have to move it etc. But the answer absolutely cannot be 100% of your time. At some point you have to shovel some shit." [1] -Jamie Brandon ------------------------------------------------------------- "If you aren't testing, you're guessing." -Mikey Pipes ------------------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes, a dollar costs more than its worth." -Jay McAllister ------------------------------------------------------------- "If it works the first time, you've done it before." -AvE ------------------------------------------------------------- "If it works the first time, do it again." -AvE ------------------------------------------------------------- "If you drink enough water, you can do anything." -Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------- "Principles are higher than techniques. Principles produce techniques in an instant." -Ido Portal ------------------------------------------------------------- "Some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years." -Chris Rock ------------------------------------------------------------- "Are you failing enough?" -Paul Masek ------------------------------------------------------------- "Procedure is created as the percentage of high functioning workers decreases relative to the amount of work output necessary for the system to survive." -r3trohack3r ------------------------------------------------------------- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." -Will Durant ------------------------------------------------------------- "The fastest way to move a cow is slow" -cowboy ------------------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." -Teller ------------------------------------------------------------- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke ------------------------------------------------------------- "Use your intuition to ask questions, not to answer them" -John Ousterhout ------------------------------------------------------------- "Whatever you do dont do it partly." -jcole ------------------------------------------------------------- "My presence speaks volumes before i say a word." -mosdef ------------------------------------------------------------- "I think that without owning something over an extended period of time, like a few years, where someone has a chance to take responsibility for one's recommendations, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate some scar tissue for the mistakes and pick one's self up off the ground and dust one's self off, one learns a fraction of what one can," -Steve Jobs ------------------------------------------------------------- "Leave it nice for the next guy because chances are, the next guy is probably you." -unknown ------------------------------------------------------------- "It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes." -Warren Buffett ------------------------------------------------------------- "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." -Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man ------------------------------------------------------------- "Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." -John Carmack ------------------------------------------------------------- "Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty." -John Carmack ------------------------------------------------------------- "Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better." -John Carmack ------------------------------------------------------------- "Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process." -John Carmack ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- references: [1]: https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/things-unlearned/