Andrew Michalik
Favorite Quotes
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat,
tears, or the sea."
- Isak Dinesen (pseudonym
of Baroness Karen Blixen)
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my
career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six
times, I've been trusted to take the
game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over
and over and over again in my life. And that is
why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum
shows us that faith proves nothing."
-
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In preparing for battle I have always found
that plans are useless, but planning is
indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"How ya doing?" - "Doing"; "Push
button, make it go!"
- Lex Michalik
"... beware of all enterprises that
require new clothes... If you have any
enterprise before you, try it in your
old clothes. ... Perhaps we should never
procure a new suit, however ragged or
dirty the old, until we have ...
enterprised or sailed in some way,
...that we feel like new men in the old,
and that to retain it would be like
keeping new wine in old bottles.."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The time is always right to do what
is right."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Everybody dies, but not everyone
lives."
- Superchick
"Art without engineering is dreaming;
engineering without art is calculating."
- Steven Roberts, Nomadic Research Labs
"A leader needs the guts to stand
alone and look ridiculous. But what he's
doing is so simple, it's almost
instructional. This is key. You must be
easy to follow! ... Everyone needs to
see the followers, because new followers
emulate followers - not the leader."
- Derek Sivers, The Shirtless Dancing
Guy
"Time is the fire in which we burn."
- Delmore Schwartz
"Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the
barriers within yourself that you have
built against it."
- Jalal ad-Din
Rumi, 13th Century Persian Poet and
Mystic
"If this were a free market, all
information about the transaction would
be transparent, and the best product
with the best price would win. Instead,
the most convincing advertiser wins.
Ultimately, this economic system --
which is not capitalism -- will put
honest companies out of business and
reward deceivers. The current list of
troubled banks, home builders, mortgage
brokers and retailers is a “Who's Who”
of well-marketed companies that had
unsustainable profits built on false
advertising. Their business models were
a house of cards destined to eventually
fail."
- Bob Sullivan
"Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the
opposite."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"If you want to build a ship, don’t
drum up people together to collect wood
and don’t assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea."
-
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I never knew I always wanted that!"
- Spencer Hawk, age 6
"There is a commercial on the radio
that begins, 'Everybody wants a high-end
TV...' The pressure to purchase is real
. It may be true that everybody wants a
high-end TV. After all, nobody wants to
be a nobody. But I'm happy to live
without one."
- Karl R. Green
"The world of goals is about
fast-tracking your life. It's about
getting from point A to Z, ASAP. Do not
linger over a cup of J. There is no time
to smell the R. Just go! Go! Go!
Multitask to early retirement."
-
Mathew Wolfe
"When fascism comes to America, it
will be wrapped in the flag and carrying
the cross."
- Sinclair Lewis
"I had rather be shut up in a very
modest cottage with my books, my family
and a few old friends, dining on simple
bacon, and letting the world roll on as
it liked, than to occupy the most
splendid post, which any human power can
give."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is
the devil."
- Carl Jung
"Good for Business, bad for the
People"
- unnamed businessman,
Fahrenheit 911
"To find yourself, think for
yourself."
- Socrates
Flying cars and the future are
synonymous. That's how we know it's not
the future yet: there are no flying cars
in mass production. Someday they'll
start making workable flying cars, it'll
be the future, and we can all eat
Dippin' Dots and talk about the
barbaric, uncivilized past while dodging
plummeting bodies.
- Lore Sj?erg
OK, look - I think I have a plan
here. Using mainly spoons, we dig a
tunnel under the city and release it
into the wild.
- Mike Wazowski,
Monsters Inc
If you are going through hell, keep
going.
- Sir Winston Churchill
(courtesy of
Jon Fox)
Most people know more about how the
Vatican works than about what
programmers do.
- Alan Cooper
Serving God is doing good to man, but
praying is thought an easier service and
therefore more generally chosen.
-
Benjamin Franklin
Yet, it is important to remember that
a great many more things might happen
than actually do. There are more
plausibility's than likelihood's.
-
David Brin, Ph.D.
"First off - stop caring about what a
50-year-old would or wouldn't do. The
minute you start to make THAT
assessment, a part of you dies a little.
I myself plan on being about 14 until I
die and anyone who stands in the way of
that can just f*ck off. If I want to
wear my pink pants out on the town, it's
going to take a lot more than 'socially
accepted standards' to stop me. Maybe
something like a bullet maybe, or an act
of god, or maybe a snowstorm (I hate
blue balls) but NEVER what someone
thinks of me."
- William Missett,
Director of Tactile Operations, DEA
"You are not beaten until you admit
it, hence don't."
- General George
Patton
"Satan, Oscillate My Metallic
Sonatas"
- A Palindrome by Anonymous
"Those who danced were thought to be
quite insane by those who could not hear
the music."
- Angela Monet
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty
said, in a rather scornful tone, "it
means just what I choose it to mean,
neither more nor less."
- Lewis
Carroll,
Through The Looking Glass
We are The Flakes.
You will be
assimilated into our cereal collective.
Resistance is futile.
Milk is
preferable
- Raven Wylder
I'll take heaven for climate and hell
for sociability.
- Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks
who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Times are bad. Children no longer
obey their parents, and everyone is
writing a book.
- Cicero
Any man who has $10,000 left when he
dies is a failure.
- Errol Flynn
Clothes make the man. Naked people
have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
I'm walking home from school and I'm
watching some men build a new house. All
of a sudden the guy hammering on the
roof calls me a paranoid little weirdo.
In Morse code.
- Emo Phillips
The great charm of cats is their
rampant egotism, their devil-may-care
attitude toward responsibility, their
disinclination to earn an honest dollar.
- Robertson Davies
The great question which I have not
been able to answer, despite my 30 years
of research into the feminine soul, is
"what does a woman want?".
-Sigmund
Freud
Wise living consists perhaps less in
acquiring good habits than in acquiring
as few habits as possible.
- Eric
Hoffer
Yield to temptation; it may not pass
your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When authorities warn you of the
sinfulness of sex, there is an important
lesson to be learned. Do not have sex
with the authorities.
- Matt Groening
Don't ask the barber whether you need
a haircut.
- Daniel Greenberg
The human brain is perhaps the only
example of evolution providing a species
with an organ it does not know how to
use.
- Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in
the Machine
At present, there are many more years
ahead of the Internet than behind it, so
a decision was made to relax the
compatibility requirement in order to
create a superior development and
deployment environment.
- Microsoft
Corporation, "Migrating ASP Pages to
ASP.NET", circa June 2001
Disobedience in the eyes of any one
who has read history is man's original
virtue. It is through disobedience that
progress has been made, through
disobedience and through rebellion.
- Oscar Wilde
In all those things which deal with
people, be liberal, be human. In all
those things which deal with the
people's money or their economy or their
form of government, be conservative.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Always... always remember: Less is
less. More is more. More is better and
twice as much is good too. Not enough is
bad, and too much is never enough except
when it's just about right.
- The
Tick
You know how dumb the average guy is?
Well, mathematically, by definition,
half of them are even dumber than that.
- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
Most people can't think, most of the
remainder won't think, the small
fraction who do think mostly can't do it
very well. The extremely tiny fraction
who think regularly, accurately,
creatively, and without self-delusion -
in the long run, these are the only
people who count.
- Robert A.
Heinlein
We often despise what is most useful
to us.
- Aesop
[Web405] End of Year Thoughts:
Oh - I have a lesson - a BIG one: I LOVE
good project managers.
LOVE them.
LOVE THEM LOVE THEM LOVE THEM.
They
are few and far between, and are as good
as gold on teams of any scale. Bad
project managers can create chaos,
unhappiness, and kill the morale of the
web folk. Good project managers are
realistic with management while pushing
you to do your best work and work hard;
Good project managers do more than just
pay lip service to your ideas. Good
project managers know how much they
know, and *ask* if they don't understand
something. Good project managers
sympathize with your family situation
when work requires you to stay late.
Good project managers know when the
meeting is *over* and it's time to get
back to work.
- Joe Crawford,
WebSanDiego List Founder
The eye sees only what the mind is
prepared to comprehend.
- Henri
Bergson
A man's hatred is always concentrated
upon that which makes him conscious of
his bad qualities.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Businesses change technologies and
approaches not when it is easy to do,
but when it is hard to avoid.
-
Anonymous
Belief is thought at rest.
- Larry
Harvey
If you ask me to name the proudest
distinction of Americans, I would
choose- because it contains all the
others- the fact that they were the
people who created the phrase "to make
money." No other language or nation had
ever used these words before; men had
always thought of wealth as a static
quantity- to be seized, begged,
inherited, shared, looted or obtained as
a favor. Americans were the first to
understand that wealth has to be
created.
- Ayn Rand
The best way to have a good idea is
to have lots of ideas.
- Linus
Pauling
There is nothing more difficult to
take in hand, more perilous to conduct,
or more uncertain in its success, than
to take the lead in the introduction of
a new order of things.
- Niccolo
Machiavelli
Learning acquired in youth arrests
the evil of old age; and if you
understand that old age has wisdom for
its food, you will so conduct yourself
in youth that your old age will not lack
for nourishment.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Success - To laugh often and much, to
win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; to earn
the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty; to find the best in
others; to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden
patch or redeemed social condition; to
know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson