Maxims, Adages & Quotes
A little lightness
|
Good
Fast
Cheap
. . .
Pick any two. |
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You only find oil if you drill wells.
John
Masters (oil wildcatter) |
The wizard is the one who puts the problem on
the table.
-Mary
Williams, management consultant |
| For every problem there is solution that is simple,
obvious—and wrong. |
| Some problems ain’t got no solutions. |
There is no problem a good miracle can’t
solve.
-Shick
|
| Do it. |
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
-Karen
Lamb |
| The effort required to correct course increases
geometrically
with time. |
| An example is not a proof. |
| An analogy is most
informative at that point at which it breaks
down. |
| To a child with a hammer, everything is a nail
(Law of the instrument). |
| A boomerang that won't come back is a stick,
no matter how many times you throw it. |
There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician’s
paradise where everything happens as it does in
textbooks.
-Bertrand
Russell |
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing
where to find it.
-Samuel
Johnson |
The nice thing about standards is that there are
so many of them to choose from.
-Andrew
S. Tanenbaum |
| On hearing a new idea an academic said to me,
"I was about to think of that!" |
