commit 91d0100c4bf822b63d1bd9d0a2b30cc19dd32cc9
parent 477c89fdfbb2b805ae296e2c66d2c4de638a2f96
Author: Ed van Bruggen <edvb@uw.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:43:08 -0800
Fix and add new quotes
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1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/assets/quotes.txt b/assets/quotes.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
"Achieving perfection is hard, but remaining perfect, that's impossible"
"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little"
"Creativity is the ability to hide your sources"
-"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
+"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea" - Antoine de SaintExupéry
"Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute" - Edgar Allan Poe
"You don't have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm"
"We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions"
@@ -139,14 +139,14 @@
"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all" - Adam Smith
"Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees" - Emiliano Zapata
"I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place, better than we do" - Gavin Belson
-"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
-"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - Tony Hoare
-"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson
+"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations" - George Orwell
+"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" - Tony Hoare
+"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code" - Ken Thompson
"It's a curious thing about computer science: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes" - Keith Braithwaite
"Object oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" - Rob Pike
-"From music people accept pure emotion. But from art, they demand explanation." - Agnes Martin
-"If you wake up in the morning and you feel very happy, about nothing, no cause, that's what I paint about, the subtle emotions that we feel without cause in this world." - Agnes Martin
-"The relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as 'history,' harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable." - Philip Roth
+"From music people accept pure emotion. But from art, they demand explanation" - Agnes Martin
+"If you wake up in the morning and you feel very happy, about nothing, no cause, that's what I paint about, the subtle emotions that we feel without cause in this world" - Agnes Martin
+"The relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as 'history,' harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable" - Philip Roth
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again" - Kurt Vonnegut
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone" - Robin Williams
"Now I know how what's his name felt when he'd finished the Mona Lisa, knackered" - Jeremy Usborne
@@ -158,10 +158,10 @@
"Peace has cost you your strength, victory has defeated you" - Bane
"If people do not realize that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is" - John von Neumann
"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you try to make it precise" - Bertrand Russell
-"Endure, Mr. Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of the Batman. He can be the outcast, he can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice." - Alfred Pennyworth
+"Endure, Mr. Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of the Batman. He can be the outcast, he can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice" - Alfred Pennyworth
"When information is plentiful the scarce resource is attention" - Joseph Nye
"I suppose they were booing at me as I interrupted their fantasy with a little reality" - Marlon Brando
-"If there isn't room here for people who stand against everything you believe in, then what sort of a hippie free-for-all is this" - Mark Corrigan
+"If there isn't room here for people who stand against everything you believe in, then what sort of a hippie freeforall is this" - Mark Corrigan
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" - Patrick Star
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives" - Toni Morrison
"Frosties are just corn flakes for people who can't face reality" - Mark Corrigan
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
"Strange women lying in ponds disturbing swords is no basis for a system of government" - Denis
"The universe is a cruel uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning its to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense and eventually, you'll be dead" - Mr Peanutbutter
"There is no shame in dying for nothing. That's why most people die" - Henry Winkler
-"When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags" - Wanda Pierce
+"When you look at someone through rosecolored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags" - Wanda Pierce
"Things don't become traditions because they're good, they become good because they're traditions" - Todd Chavez
"I am not afraid of commitment. I commit to things all the time. It's the following through on that commitment that I take issue with" - BoJack Horseman
"He's so stupid he doesn't realize how miserable he should be" - BoJack Horseman
@@ -198,3 +198,8 @@
"Friends, family, religion, these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business" - C.M. Burns
"I'd trade it all for a little more" - C.M. Burns
"Physics is just maths with the restriction of reality, engineering is physics with the restriction of budget"
+"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it" - George Bernard Shaw
+"Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist" - George Carlin
+"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" - Harvey Dent
+"I know not what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me" - Isaac Newton
+"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard" - Fantastic
