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I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like to be taught - Churchill
11 out of 9 statistical results are false anyhow - unknown
La Vari˙t˙ triomphes toujours - Kees' variation on 'La v˙rit˙ triomphes toujours', especially to be quoted after management meetings
When I wrote this god and I knew what it meant, now only god knows - Tom
We used to think that an hundred million monkeys at an hundred million keyboards eventually could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. - unknown
Stress is a conflict in priority. Ergo, exit stress - Fred
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him - John Steinbeck
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it - William Durant, founder of General Motors
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress - Joseph Joubert
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea - Francis Bacon
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible - unknown
At the university methods are invented to formulize uunderstanding, in Industry to compensate for the lack of it [17/2/03]
Usability: by comparison the competitor is regarded complex.
How much productivity improvement does a PC has to generate to compensate for the time I spend waiting for it to become operational and/or maintaining it?
There is no such thing as politics, only bad management [12/2/04]
How can you expect from developers to create simple software if the reference is Windows?
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas Edison
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
is not an act but a habit. [Ed. note: This is true of many values, including kindness.] - Aristotle
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