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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
| Body of Quote | Author | Era | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplify, then add lightness. | Colin Chapman | Modern | |
| Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Industrial Revolution | |
| Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. | Scott Adams | Modern | |
| Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art. | D. Elton Trueblood | Modern | |
| A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. | Charles Kettering | Modern | |
| Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. | Richard Bach | Modern | |
| The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. | Confucius | Antiquity | |
| Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. | T. S. Eliot | The Enlightenment | |
| It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up | Vince Lombardi | Modern | |
| Adversity is the first path to truth. | Lord Byron | Romantic | |
| A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. | Plato | Antiquity | |
| The right question is usually more important than the right answer. | Plato | Antiquity | |
| Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems | Sun Tzu | Antiquity | |
| Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. | Socrates | Antiquity | |
| I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. | Lewis Carroll | Modern | |
| Patience is the companion of wisdom. | Saint Augustine | Middle | |
| Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. | Friedrich Nietzsche | Modern | |
| Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. | Henry Ford | Modern | |
| I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. | Louisa May Alcott | Modern | |
| Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users' | Edward Tufte | Modern | |
| In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. | Yogi Berra | Modern | |
| The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. | Seymour Cray | Modern | |
| If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. | Edsger Dijkstra | Modern | |
| To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. | Stephen Hawking | Modern | |
| If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. | Brian Foote | Modern | |
| There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. | Alan Perlis | Modern | |
| Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. | Plutarch | Antiquity | |
| In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. | Pliny the Elder | Antiquity | |
| In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity. | Pliny the Younger | Antiquity | |
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