Thread by @svpino

20 quotes that I use as inspiration to change my life.

Print them out. Keep them close. Read them frequently. Reflect on them and the wisdom behind every word.

Let's start:

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Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counterclockwise.

— Grace Hopper

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again.

Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

— Gordon Moore

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses, but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

— Donald Knuth

Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.

— Sheila Johnson

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

— Martin Fowler

Love what you do and do what you love. Doing something new and different requires a level of drive and passion that is really hard to fake. When your heart is behind what you are doing, so much is possible.

— Tracy Sun

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

— Alan Kay

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

— Marie Curie

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

— Richard Hamming

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

— John H. Johnson

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

— Brian Kernighan

There is no recipe, there is no one way to do things — there is only your way. And if you can recognize that in yourself and accept and appreciate that in others, you can make magic.

— Ara Katz

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

— Albert Einstein

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

— John Maeda

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

— Russell Simmons

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

— Steve McConnell

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

— Thomas Edison

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of "Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this," and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

— Marissa Mayer

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

— Steve Jobs

You can do anything you want to, but you have to work at it.

— Annie Easley