Sean > Sean's Quotes

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing 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. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“My dog doesn’t worry about the meaning of life.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen: Love & Work

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Reasonable skill and care is a contractual duty analogous to ‘reasonably competent’. Its evil twin is fit for purpose, a term which, when used in a contract, prevents the use of all the defences implicit in those terms containing the word reasonable. We might therefore consider it to require us to be unreasonably competent, and to exercise unreasonable skill and care. Which hardly seems reasonable.”
― Sean Moran

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
― C. A. R. Hoare

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door