Here is a list of my 10 favorite quotes!
01
Data is the Game
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“When comparing the computer industry to a game of tennis: hardware is the racket; software is the ball, but data is the game”.
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Robert Rosengreen
02
Preparedness
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"We're never prepared for what we expect."
Oscar Wilde
03
Pessimism
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"The nice part of being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
George Will, The Levelling Wind.
04
Ways
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"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways,
And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low,
I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not,
And restless and lost on a road that I know."
05
The Moods of Ginger Mick
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"Ginger Mick's bin at the races, an' 'e'd made a little rise, '
Avin' knowed a bloke wot knowed the trainer's cook.
An' easy money's very sweet, as punters reckernise,
An' sweetest when yeh've prized it orf a "book."
So Ginger calls fer Rosie, an' to celerbrate 'is win
'E trots 'er down to Ah Foo's joint to splash a bit uv tin".
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C. J Dennis
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06
Little things
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Robert W. Service
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07
The Internet
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Despite its dark side, it's the brightest light we've ever seen.
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Upside Magazine - Richard Brandt
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08
Knowledge
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People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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09
The Facts
To be factual, Mark Twain probably took this from John Adams: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
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Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
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Mark Twain
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10
Life
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away
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Philip K. Dick
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