standards

I was reading a tutorial about SQL a few days ago. Right in the beginning there was a short paragraph about SQL being a standard. And then I read a wonderful quote:
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Nice way to make me laugh. :-)

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5 quotes

Selected with a very scientific method: open your huge quote file, click somewhere, close your eyes, *scroll, scroll, scroll*, click, open your eyes. Amazing.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it. – Wilfred A. Peterson

When love and skill work together expect [...]

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time act

I had no idea we have a Time Act. There’s a paragraph about that one extra hour we get in the fall, when we move the clock back. We get the 2am twice. To prevent the confusion the first 2am is called 2A and the second 2am is called 2B. This sounds like science fiction [...]

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touching the limit

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, ‘Okay, this is the limit’. And as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your [...]

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beating the enemy

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when [...]

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believing the impossible

As the autumn exam time approaches I can’t help but remember these two quotes:
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,”said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come [...]

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Commanders

“I thought commanders could order anything.”
“They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn’t happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.”
- O. Scott Card: Ender’s Game, Chapter 7

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beginning

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
- Lewis Carroll

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