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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Having been brought up in a serf-owner's family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, ordering, scolding, punishing and the like. But when, at an early stage, I had to manage serious enterprises and to deal with free men, and when each mistake would lead at once to heavy consequences, I began to appreciate the difference between acting on the principle of command and discipline and acting on the principle of common understanding. The former works admirably in a military parade, but it is worth nothing where real life is concerned, and the aim can be achieved only through the severe effort of many converging wills.19th-century Russian anarchist Kropotkin
He who knows, but knows not that he knows, is asleep. Wake him.
He who knows not, but knows that he knows not, can be taught. Teach him.
He who knows not, but knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Avoid him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a prophet. Follow him.
Att älska helt och fullt är att utelämna sig helt och fullt.
Sapere aude - hav mod att göra bruk av ditt eget förstånd, utan någon annans ledning. (Från Glappet).
Someone who is truly in love can never be alone. (Dianne Chambers i Skål)
Den man känner sig hotad av nedvärderar man.
Jag vill ha full kontroll - det är det enda sättet att uppnå kvalitet.Henri E Ciriani, arkitekt och pedagogHan har blivit kritiserad för att han inte följer med i tiden. Men för honom kan arkitektur aldrig bli ett mode, reduceras till en stil. Det måste finnas ett längre perspektiv, ett större allvar.
May the source be with you. (John Lambert)
Allt som bygger upp egot skymmer själen. (Caroline Giertz)
Abandon the firewall fantasy. (Jakob Nielsen in Alertbox, May 26, 2002)
Perfect is the enemy of good. (Jeff Garzik)
I do not believe that we should ever apply that economic, political, and military power unilaterally. If we had followed that rule in Vietnam, we wouldn't have been there. None of our allies supported us. Not Japan, not Germany, not Britain or France. If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning. (Robert S. McNamara.)
Kapitalism och demokrati är inkompatibla. (Jakob Persson)
At every crossroad on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. (Maurice Maeterlinck, who won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature)
We can do whatevah with whatevah attityden genomsyrar det mesta från andra sidan atlanten. (Coffymonk)
People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
(Critt)
He championed civil rights and ran afoul of many in his adopted country by his open contempt for capitalism, which he dismissed as the "predatory phase of human development." (wired.com about Albert Einstein)
If you start judging people you will have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa)
If you want happiness for an hour take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month get married.
If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime help others.
(Chinese Proverb)
I am personally very proud (as a former ML type-safe programmer) that I was able to hang-on to Modula-3 until Java came out, therefore avoiding the C++ era altogether! (Luca Cardelli in a Computerwold AU interview)
I think I finally found the words for why I don't design for "90%" of the use cases. It's because doing so is designing for the past, while my creations will be used in the future, which I see as unboundedly creative. Moreover, the claim that "users won't want to X" turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. (Conal Elliot)
We need to recognize, you can't kill the instinct that technology produces, we can only criminalize it. We can't stop our kids from using it, we can only drive it underground. We can't make our kids passive again, we can only make them "pirates". Is that good? We live in this weird time, let's call it the age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law. And that's what we are doing to our kids, they live life knowing that they live it against the law, and that realization is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corrupting. And in a democracy, we ought to be able to do better. ( Lawrence Lessig, TED 2007)
The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. (Rick Warren)
The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of western European leaders to recreate the Soviet Union in western Europe. (Mikhail Gorbachev) (more EU quotes)
We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love. (Clay Shirky)
"Arbete expanderar alltid så att det fyller ut anslagen tid."
Parkinsons lag."Utgifterna stiger raskt till inkomsternas nivå."
Parkinsons andra lag."Expansion leder till komplexitet och komplexitet leder till förfall."
Parkinsons tredje lag.
(Henrik Alexandersson: Apropå byråkrati)
Det enda säkra tecknet på makt, är att kunna hindra människor från att göra det de önskar. (Betrand Russel)
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. (Robert A. Heinlein Life-Line (1939))
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations/Självbetraktelser )
To get the viewpoint of the other person appreciatively and profoundly and reconcile it with his own so far as possible is the supreme achievement of man and his highest vocation. (Henry Nelson Wieman via conal.net)
Ett företag kan aldrig konkurrera med en hel värld av utvecklare, det går inte att matcha resurserna. Öppen källkod kommer att vinna i slutändan. (Henrik Berggren, idg.se)
Om du har ett äpple, och din kompis har ett, och ni bestämmer er för att ge ert äpple till varandra, har ni fortfarande bara ett äpple var. Men om du har en idé och du möter någon som har en annan, och ni väljer att utbyta idéer har ni plötsligt två var. (George Bernard Shaw, via www.365saker.se)
What I can not build, I can not understand. (Richard Feynman)
The worst thing you can ever do in life is set yourself goals. (Stephen Fry)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein, via Chip Conley)
Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers. (Fred Brooks, via wired.com)