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inspiration.txt

2020-07-04T22:03:51Z

複雜的事情要簡單做。簡單的事情要認真做。認真的事情要重複做。重複的事情要創造性地做。

Franklin D. Roosevelt - "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

Given all that fear and panic, it's no surprise that otherwise rational people sometimes (often!) ignore rational arguments.

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." --Albert Einstein

Friedrich Nietzsche - "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

Denzel Washington - "You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."

James Thurber - "Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."

Henry David Thoreau - "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

Francis Bacon - "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

George Burns - "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive." - http://johnhaller.com/jh/

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is." - http://tomicic.de/BlogQuotationOfTheWeek.aspx

“At twenty we worry about what others think of us; at forty we don't care about what others think of us; at sixty we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.”

John Ruskin - "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

Winston Churchill - "this paper by its very length defends itself against the chance of being read".

Niccolo Machiavelli - It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vince Lombardi

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now." - Bill Cosby

Victor Hugo - "There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

Robert Benchley - "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down."

Plato - "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

Christopher Marlowe - "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."

Satchel Paige - "Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn."

Abigail Van Buren - "The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Eric Butterworth - "Don't go through life, grow through life."

Oswald Chambers - "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

If you keep talking… You miss the valuable things that other people have to say. Listen, reflect, and then comment. Not before. - http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2007/10/23/if-you-keep-talking/

Paul Tournier - "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

Managers manage resources... , People are not resources. http://digerati-illuminatus.blogspot.com[..]m/2006/12/managers-manage-resources.html

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." --Robert Frost

Everyone at these conferences focus on tools like value stream mapping and 5S. But the tools are only 25% of the story. Lean is about people, not about waste. Focus on the employees -- all other benefits are just by-products. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]ean-is-about-people-not-about-waste.html

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - Les Brown

“Your attitude has been affecting other departments”, he said. “And I want to thank you for it.” - http://blog.objectmentor.com[..]-attitude-is-affecting-other-departments

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." - Harold S. Geneen

"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." - Paul Tillich

所以我认为同学们不要妄自菲薄，见到自己不懂的，或似懂非懂的，就认为是高深学问，畏而敬之。更不要骗自己，不懂却认为是懂。同学要问︰皇帝何来新衣了？不久前一位同学问及他高举的诺斯的某术语何解。我说不懂。我怎会不懂诺斯呢？同事十三年，好几个学期他旁听我的课。诺斯对问题重要性的感受好，这是天赋，是他的本钱，创造术语只不过是他的成名玩意，而这种颇为流行的玩意他的本领只是一般。是的，经济学行内有走不同路线的人，本领各各不同，有些成名，有些被认为是笨蛋。同学不要管这些。要管的是分析，因为这是脑子的操练，对整生的任何一方面都有好处。论分析，其中一个要点是任何术语，甚至任何一个字，其意思或理解都不要放过。坚持要知道，要明白。这样，三几年后同学会体会到学问有真假之分。是的，做学问要执着。 - http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_47841af70100cw6c.html

Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H. Schuller

Emile Zola - "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Vivien Leigh - "Life is too short to work so hard."

Plautus - "The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."

Benjamin Franklin - "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - "The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

Paulo Coelho - "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

‘To achieve great things, two things are needed, a plan and not quite enough time.’ — Leonard Bernstein

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

Vash Young - "Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

Dwight L. Moody - "If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."

Eric Hoffer "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "I am I plus my circumstances."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

“An expert is [someone] who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field” – Niels Bohr

Robert Lynd - "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."

Auguste Rodin "I invent nothing, I rediscover."

Ethel Waters "We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."

May Sarton - "Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

Francis Beaumont - "The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."

Jean Ingelow "I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered."

Right. Therefore the team must improve from the inside, not from the outside. - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com[..]/group/extremeprogramming/message/157111

Will Durant - "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Elbert Hubbard - "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

Thomas Sowell - "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."

Joseph Conrad - "Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."

James A. Garfield - "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."

John D. Rockefeller - "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

Pablo Neruda - "Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

Edwin Land - "It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."

Dwight L. Moody - "If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."

Aristotle - "Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Eleanor Roosevelt - "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Benjamin Franklin - "Well done is better than well said."

Abraham Lincoln - "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

Voltaire - "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

Rudyard Kipling - "All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."

H. L. Mencken - "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Carl Sandburg - "Nothing happens unless first we dream."

M. C. Escher - "We adore chaos because we love to produce order."

Jim Rohn - "Either you run the day or the day runs you."

Franklin D. Roosevelt - "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

Will Durant - "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Agatha Christie - "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."

Kin Hubbard - "Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."

Saul Bellow - "When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

Dick Cavett - "It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."

James Dean - "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

Galileo Galilei - "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

Pablo Picasso - "Action is the foundational key to all success."

Walt Whitman - "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

Edith Wharton - "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Aldo Leopold - "Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."

Paulo Coelho - "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

Hal Borland - "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

Don Marquis - "Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "In art the best is good enough."

Alfred Lord Tennyson - "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Alfred Austin - "Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."

Norman Cousins - "Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

Swami Sivananda - "Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."

Richard M. Nixon - "The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Ernest Hemingway - "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com[..]rtance-of-quiet-to-the-creative-process/

Charles Lindbergh - "Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."

Kin Hubbard - "A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower."

C. S. Lewis - "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Theodore Dreiser - "In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."

Joseph Joubert - "Imagination is the eye of the soul."

John Henry Newman - "Growth is the only evidence of life."

Blaise Pascal - "Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

May Sarton - "Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

Josiah Gilbert Holland - "Joys divided are increased."

Robert W. Service - "A promise made is a debt unpaid."

William Gaddis - "Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."

Michael Korda - "Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life."

Joseph Wood Krutch - "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

Sidney Sheldon - "Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived."

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - "You have to dream before your dreams can come true."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin - "Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

Zhuangzi "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Pauline Phillips - "The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Le Corbusier - "I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."

Cavett Robert - "If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one."

Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn."

William Ralph Inge - "True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

Arne Jacobsen - "If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."

Martin Luther - "God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars."

John Steinbeck - "No one wants advice - only corroboration."

Nancy Astor - "The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing."

Lawrence Durrell - "Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."

http://list25.com[..]es-that-could-change-your-life/?view=all

Iris Murdoch - "Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

Dale Carnegie - "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

Michel de Montaigne - "Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."

Vincent Van Gogh - "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

Jules Renard - "If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."

Satchel Paige - "Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

John Webster - "Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together."

George Washington - "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

Leo Buscaglia - "Change is the end result of all true learning."

Edward Young - "By all means use some time to be alone."

Albert Einstein - "Love is a better teacher than duty."

Amelia Earhart - "The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

Alphonse Karr - "The more things change, the more they are the same."

http://list25.com/25-inspirational-mother-teresa-quotes/?view=all

http://list25.com[..]one-liners-you-have-ever-heard/?view=all

Manage your energy, not your time - http://traderfeed.blogspot.hk[..]/maximizing-personal-energy-turning.html

THe way to develop sef-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you - http://traderfeed.blogspot.hk[..]015/09/the-big-mistake-traders-make.html

Jack Welch - "Change before you have to."

Ronald Reagan - "Trust, but verify."

Logan Pearsall Smith - "It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."

You can't make the same mistake twice. The second time you make it, it's no longer a mistake. It's a choice - http://traderfeed.blogspot.hk[..]/02/how-we-create-our-trading-karma.html

不流行的東西也會變成時尚，但風格卻會長存（Fashion gets unfashion，unfashion gets fashion, but style remains） - Agnès b.

http://list25.com[..]-the-famous-youll-want-to-hear/?view=all

http://list25.com[..]-pop-culture-to-make-you-wiser/?view=all

http://list25.com[..]rom-mlk-jr-to-inspire-your-day/?view=all

Anne Frank - "Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."

Walter Scott - "Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."

「沒關係，就是這樣，我已盡力，我已盡我所能戰鬥，就是這樣。」 - https://hk.sports.appledaily.com[..]ports/realtime/article/20190904/60007899

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. - https://getpocket.com[..]from-everyone-else-and-will-make-all-the

fun quote.txt

2019-10-19T11:19:58Z

What is the difference of software architect from software designer? About 30k http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.491003

The law of conservation of energy - If there is no work, sleep.

Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.

Love the neighbor. But don?t get caught.

Behind every successful man, there is a man. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

The wise never marry, And when they marry they become otherwise.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

Your future depends on your dreams.? So go to sleep.

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

Hard work never killed anybody.? But why take the risk?

Work fascinates me.? I can look at it for hours!

God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.

When two?s company, three?s the result!

A dress is like a barbed fence. It protects the premises without restricting the view.

The more you learn, the more you know, The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

Edward Abbey "Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Ashley Montagu "The idea is to die young as late as possible."

Richard Roeper - "Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."

Wendy Liebman - "I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog."

Kin Hubbard - "A good listener is usually thinking about something else."

Joseph Conrad - "Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

J. P. Morgan - "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

William Feather - "The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes."

Billy Wilder - "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

Charles M. Schulz - "I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."

Zsa Zsa Gabor - "I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house."

Jules Renard - "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Dan Quisenberry - "The future is much like the present, only longer."

Victor Borge - "Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year."

James Whistler - "If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible."

Mark Twain - "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."

Natalie Wood - "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby."

Bill Vaughan - "The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them."

Howard Nemerov - "The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."

Noel Coward - "If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday."

Malcolm de Chazal - "Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. - Christopher Marlowe.

Eleanor Roosevelt - "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Thomas Dekker - "The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."

Helen Hayes - "If you rest, you rust."

Joey Adams - "Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."

Robert Wilson Lynd - "Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them."

Thomas A. Edison - "The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."

Clarence Darrow - "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/saul_bellow_120538

love.txt

2019-10-01T12:26:51Z

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character." -- Peter De Vries

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." -- Josh Billings

Lucretius - "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

Robert Louis Stevenson - "Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

Nicolas de Chamfort - "There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love."

Edward Abbey "Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."

Victor Hugo "To love is to act."

W. Somerset Maugham - "Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."

W. Somerset Maugham - "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned."

Helen Rowland - "Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near."

Marlene Dietrich - "Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."

Josh Billings - "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

Friedrich Nietzsche - "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

Thomas Aquinas - "The things that we love tell us what we are."

King Edward VIII - "When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else."

Christian Nestell Bovee - "Our first and last love is self-love."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca - "When love is not madness, it is not love."

Maurice Chevalier - "The crime of loving is forgetting."

Leonardo da Vinci - "Art is never finished, only abandoned."

Joyce Brothers - "The best proof of love is trust."

Andre Maurois - "A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

Lorraine Hansberry - "There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing."

Vincent Van Gogh - "The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others."

Pindar - "Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection."

Tom Robbins - "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

https://list25.com/25-deep-truth-relationship-memes

environment.txt

2016-11-29T15:23:39Z

PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 - Konstantin Ignatyev

James Lovelock - "Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest."

George Bernard Shaw - "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

Hal Borland - "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

computer.txt

2015-12-23T03:32:11Z

http://www.javacodegeeks.com[..]03/quotes-relating-to-system-design.html

Quotations on simplicity in software design - http://www.jbox.dk/quotations.htm

"Every bug fix is also a bug risk." -- Graham Hamilton

Computer Programming:
Every problem can be solved by breaking it up into a series of smaller problems.
The computer will always do exactly what you tell it to.

Software Engineering:
Writing the code is the easy part. Writing it so someone else can understand it later is the important part.
Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast.

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org[..]he_two_things_about_computer_programming

A lot of quotation - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000855.html

Customers aren't disappointed when you don't meet your commitments; they're disappointed when it means they can't meet theirs. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]stomers-arent-disappointed-when-you.html

If something is painful to do but you know you will have to do it eventually, then practice doing it so that when you do have to do it, you can do it well. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2007/06/extreme-programming-made.html

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The worst situation I've experienced was when sales promised a delivery date before I was even hired to work on it. (To be fair, there was one guy, who started on it then quit.) The project involved fairly extensive modifications to a nightmare legacy code base. That was a fun job: "Welcome aboard, here's the source code, nobody knows how it works, the customer's been waiting a year for these modifications *and* you've got another project that depends on this one, how long will it take?" Needless to say, nobody wanted to hear the right answer.
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Voltaire said: Common sense is not so common.

# Silver bullets are expensive, especially considering...
# There are no vampires.Sometimes, in IT today, it appears that common sense is masked by common practice, making it seem counter-intuitive.

http://www.think-box.co.uk/blog/2008/01/common.html

http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]/documentation-of-work-is-not-about.html

# Silver bullets are expensive, especially considering...
# There are no vampires. - http://www.developsense.com/2009/01/metaphor-silver-bullets.html

In God we trust, everything else we test. - http://www.testinggeek.com/index.php

http://daipratt.co.uk/programming-and-it-quotes/

http://www.coderfriendly.com[..]009/12/30/my-5-favorite-software-quotes/

http://www.junauza.com[..]p-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html

http://www.javacodegeeks.com[..]2/11/20-kick-ass-programming-quotes.html

http://www.devinprogress.info[..]/02/my-favourite-programming-quotes.html

http://javarevisited.blogspot.com[..]otes-to-learn-and-motivate-yourself.html

Tools and machines are great, but in the end, it is the people who matter. Putting together an effective automated test team requires lots of planning and skills. - Source: Experiences of Test Automation – Case Studies of Software Test Automation, Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster editors, Addison-Wesley

C_-nppdf32Log-debuglog.txt

2014-05-04T11:28:47Z

NPP_GetValue is called
NPP_GetValue is called
NPP_GetValue is called
NPP_GetValue is called

BBQ.pdf

2013-01-21T12:16:25Z

trading.txt

2010-07-25T05:54:20Z

* "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison.

* "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." - Nikola Tesla

* "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell

* "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved." - Charles Kettering

* "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil." - Thomas Edison

* "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller

* "A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving." - Ray Kurzweil

* "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again." - Charles Kettering

* "What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are." - George Eastman

* "God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper." - R. Buckminster Fuller

* "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas Edison

* "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

* "We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work." - Charles Kettering

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com[..]/life-insights-from-great-inventors.html

25 Things I've Learned In 50 Years.txt

2007-06-13T13:55:52Z

The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of
helicopters in it.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and
compelling reason why we observe Daylight Saving Time.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

People who feel the need to tell you that they have an excellent
sense of humor are telling you that they have no sense of humor.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is
entertainment.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely
suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby
emerging from her at that moment.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

A penny saved is worthless.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

They can hold all the peace talks they want, but there will never
be peace in the Middle East. Billions of years from now, when Earth
is hurtling toward the Sun and there is nothing left alive on the
planet except a few microorganisms, the microorganisms living in
the Middle East will be bitter enemies.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age,
gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that,
deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to
make a big deal about your birthday. That time is: age 11.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness.'
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

People who want to share their religious views with you almost
never want you to share yours with them.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

Nobody is normal.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human
race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential,
that word would be: meetings.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to
annoy people who are not in them.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all
of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He
will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad
hairstyle.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

You should not confuse your career with your life.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a
nice person.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too
seriously.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one
individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

Your friends love you anyway.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
-- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

http://www.enginesofmischief.com/makers/evan/sigs/barry.html

The Wealth of Nations.txt

2007-06-01T17:01:07Z

Very insightful:

This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not
originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that
general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though
very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature,
which has in view no such extensive utility ; the propensity to truck,
barter, and exchange one thing for another.

http://www.online-literature.com/adam_smith/wealth_nations/2/

blame.txt

2007-02-22T04:10:54Z

One of the most obvious fears people have when first trying a
retrospective is that the ritual will become a negative gripe session,
interspersed with blame and counter blame.

Clearly such an event will not contribute to much learning.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com[..]/group/extremeprogramming/message/125639

meaningful