Heaven
Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"
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Love and Achievements
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
-- Anonymous
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Who, me?
I'm
different, just like everybody else!
-- Seen on Slashdot
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Significance
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
-- Carl Sagan
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Others and Ourselves
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
-- Eric Hoffer
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Anger
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
-- Buddha
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Anger
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Start Small
Preston St. Pierre, Linux Times: Do you have any advice for people starting to undertake large open source projects? What have you learned by managing the Linux kernel?
Linus Torvalds: Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.
So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say "hey, that _almost_ works for me", and they'll get involved in the project.
And if there is anything I've learnt from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should _not_ try to enforce your "vision" too strongly on them. Most often you're wrong anyway, and if you're not flexible and willing to take input from others (and willing to change direction when it turned out your vision was flawed), you'll never get anything good done.
In other words, be willing to admit your mistakes, and don't expect to get anywhere big in any kind of short timeframe. I've been doing Linux for thirteen years, and I expect to do it for quite some time still. If I had _expected_ to do something that big, I'd never have started. It started out small and insignificant, and that's how I thought about it.
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Watching the watchers
Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? [who guards the custodians, or colloquially, who watches the watchers?]
-- Juvenal
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Smile
Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by...
If you smile
With your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just...
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just...
Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by...
If you smile
Through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile...
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
-- Smile, music by Charlie Chaplin, words by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons
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Careful
If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.
-- Anonymous
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Press On
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-- Calvin Coolidge
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Intimacy
Remember when you were a child
And your momma would hold you in her arms
And rock you to sleep
Now darling there's just you and I
Let's give each other everything baby baby...
Everybody's searching for intimacy
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Everybody's hurting for intimacy
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
-- "Intimacy" by the Corrs
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Look up
Hanna, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hanna! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kind new world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hanna! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow. Into the light of hope! Into the future! The glorious future! That belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hanna! Look up!
-- The Jewish Barber, The Great Dictator, written by Charles Chaplin
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Piano and Discovery
At dinner, [Mrs. Einstein] told me about the story of the morning he conceived the theory of relativity.
'The Doctor came down in his dressing-gown as usual for breakfast but he hardly touched a thing. I thought something was wrong, so I asked what was troubling him. "Darling", he said, "I have a wonderful idea". And after drinking his coffee, he went to the piano and started playing. Now and again he would stop, making a few notes then repeat: "I've got a wonderful idea, a marvellous idea!"
'I said: "Then for goodness' sake tell me what it is, don't keep me in suspense."
'He said: "It's difficult, I still have to work it out".
She told me he continued playing the piano and making notes for about half an hour, then went upstairs to his study, telling her that he did not wish to be disturbed, and remained there for two weeks. 'Each day I sent him up his meals', she said, 'and in the evening he would walk a little for exercise, then return to his work again'.
'Eventually', she said, 'he came down from his study with looking very pale. "That's it", he told me, wearily putting two sheets of paper on the table. And that was his theory of relativity'.
-- Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography
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Travel and Writing
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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Enduring habits
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love
...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
-- Han Suyin, translated
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Why Love
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
-- C.S. Lewis
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Solitude
I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
-- Pearl S. Buck
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The Hardest Thing
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The Hardest Thing
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
-- Muhammad Ali
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The Hardest Thing
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
-- David Russell
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