John Spaetzel > John's Quotes

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
― Martin Fowler

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”
― Douglas Adams

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

“I found myself beset by so many doubts and errors that I came to think I had gained nothing from my attempts to become educated but increasing recognition of my ignorance.”
― Descartes

“They say that everything that happens is for the better. I am not sure about “everything.” But what is for sure, that it is strictly up to us to turn our “loss” into our “victory.”
― Albert Einstein

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Theresa

“Let not defeatists tell us that it is too late. It will never be earlier. Tomorrow will be later than today.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe