‘‘when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.’’ - Why the Lucky Stiff Source
‘‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.’’ - Oscar Wilde
‘‘Those who don’t understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly’’ - Henry Spencer
‘‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.’’ - Seneca the Younger?
WikiQuotes has an overview of where this quote came from. It did mention this actual
quote from Seneca the Younger quoting Demetrius that is also good: ‘‘The best wrestler,’’ he would say, ‘‘is not he who has learned thoroughly all the tricks and twists of the art, which are seldom met with in actual wrestling, but he who has well and carefully trained himself in one or two of them, and watches keenly for an opportunity of practising them.’’
‘‘Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity.’’ - Haratio Alger (1883), Abraham Lincoln: The Backwoods Boy; or, How a Young Rail-Splitter became President
‘‘Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion '’ - W. Edwards Deming
‘‘The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.’’ - John Adams