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Curated Quote List

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This is a collection of favorite quotes from members of the infamous Coding Collective. This repository is built for anyone to practice collaborating using git. Add as many quotes as you like!

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The Quotes

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great

John D. Rockefeller


You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky


All models are wrong, but some are useful.

George Box, statistician


To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not enough time.

Leonard Bernstein


To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde


Trust in God, but make sure you tie up your camel.

Bedouin saying


Love has a tide!

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Fine. Sell out. Get a job. A nice nine to five one. Sit in front of the idiot box all night and watch some stupid sitcom...all the while wondering what it might have been like if you'd hung in there for just one...more...day.

Oderus Urungus, 2013


No matter where you go - there you are.

Confucious 551-479 BC


Something unknown is doing we don't know what - that is what our knowledge amounts to.

Sir Arthur Eddington, 1927


..from so simple beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin


A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

John Keats


Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi


Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

ALbert Einstein


Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

John Wood


I carefully described to Huxley the shooting of the pollinia in Catasetum, and received for an answer, 'Do you really think I can believe all that?

Charles Darwin


Why should you call me to account for eating decently?

George Bernard Shaw


Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

George Carlin


If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

P. J. O'Rourke


I like the quote thing. Are people updating the quotes?

Julin Maloof


If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

E. O. Wilson


Hello World

Computer


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education

Mark Twain


I think I finally understand how some of this works! Maybe.

Kaisa Kajala


I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity


Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.

Richard Feynman


When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia


Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy


Yer a wizard 'arry

Hagrid


Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman, Coraline


Crumbling is not an Instant's act.

Emily Dickinson


All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney


In one corner the piano tuner struck the same chord dozens of times and scattered arpeggios like handfuls of beads.

Boris Pasternak


The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963


We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney


Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Vonnegut


Don't drink and drive. But if you do, call me.

Saul Goodman


you have to learn the rules of the game. and then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein


It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell


If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis Carroll


An atom at large in the biota is too free to know freedom; an atom back in the sea has forgotten it. For every atom lost to the sea, the prairie pulls another out of the decaying rocks. The only certain truth is that its creatures must suck hard, live fast, and die often, lest its losses exceed its gains.

Aldo Leopold


The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

St. Augustine


Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software.

Bjarne Stroustrup


First solve the problem. Than write the code.

John Johnson


Web design for me is a perfect blend of arty and nerdy.

Chris Coyier


Mystery is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein


Every time someone asked me why I was walking around with crab apples in my cheeks, I’d just open my hands and show them it was rubber balls I was walking around with, not crab apples, and that they were in my hands, not my cheeks.

Orr (Catch-22)


Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie


Brevity is the Soul of Wit

Shakespeare


But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake


Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men

Marcus Garvey


Hope is the thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson


Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde


There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou


You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


Life is lived on the edge.

Will Smith


Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway


All Birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the cloud.

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking


A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

Abraham Lincoln


A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Benni


A person can succeed at anything for which there is enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab


Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half


All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Benjamin Franklin


Attitudes are more important than facts.

Dr. Karl Menninger


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt


Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George


If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin


Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde


Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy


Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

William Shakespeare


I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates


I will go anywhere, as long as it is forward.

David Livingstone


Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie


Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

Benjamin Disraeli


Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy


Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

Mark Twain


The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Arnold Palme


Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do.

Mark Hatfield


I think this is how you do it.

Dorian Sommerfeld