Quotes that Matter

ATTITUDE determines your ALTITUDE : Our Attitudes can be improved based on daily self-audits or a self-audit after every action-karma.There is no one way to get the right attitude. It is the result of many things over a period of time.  ATTITUDE is everything : What's important in our life is not what happens to us but the attitude we show toward it.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it - from Dilberts words of wisdom

"The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us."-- Gloria Steinem

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of values." ----Albert Einstein

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." --- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. " --- Mitch Ratcliffe, "Technology Review" (1992)

"Artificial intellegence is no match for natural stupidity." Sarah Chambers

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." Andrew Tanenbaum

While I don't claim to be a great programmer, I try to imitate one. An important trait of the great ones is constructive laziness. They know that you get an A not for effort but for results [...] Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

[about programming] "You often don't really understand the problem until after the first time you implement a solution. The second time, maybe you know enough to do it right. So if you want to get it right, be ready to start over at least once." Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. :-)

In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him. Scott Adams (author of Dilbert).

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either - from Dilberts words of wisdom

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. - from dilberts words of wisdom 

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization 

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.