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Quotes to Live By

"Your idea is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true" -- Niels Bohr, physicist (1885 - 1962)

"What does not destroy me makes me stronger" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

"The mind that faces and defeats one opponent is the same mind that faces and defeats a thousand." -- Miyamoto Musashi, swordsman (1584-1645)

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -- James Dean, actor (1931-1955)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not a act, but a habit." -- Aristotle, philosopher (384-322BC)

"The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have." -- Randy Pausch, professor (1960-2008)

Food for Thought

"The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed." -- William Gibson, author (1948- )

"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." -- attributed to Max Weinreich, linguist (1883-1969)

"Every child is a little bodhisattva born to help the parent grow." -- Master Sheng-Yen, Buddhist monk (1930-2009)

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" -- Edsgar Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930-2002)


Kevin Duh
Last modified: Jan 15, 2011