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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
| 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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