Scripts and Quotes

Here you will find other scripts (programming language thoughts) and quotes (natural language thoughts) that appeal to me. Might be a few of my own tossed in, but mostly from others.

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
— Thomas Alva Edison

“Good teaching is ninety-nine percent inspiration,  one percent perspiration.”
— Tom Harris

“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”
— Maria Montessori

((/path/to/oraMon.pl 2>&1 1>&3 | tee /tmp/errors.log) 3>&1 1>&2 | tee /tmp/output.log) > /tmp/final.log 2>&1
— Vivek Gite on how to get stderr, stdout, and both

Consciousness is not in your body; your body is in your consciousness
— Carlos Castaneda (paraphrased; have to find source)

.. the economics of the family … credit cards, mortages, car loans, overdraft fees. All the stuff you have to do in your daily life to survive economically.
— Elizabeth Warren

The most destructive word in software development is “implementation”. There is no implementation, there is only design and more design.
— Corey Ladas

Thomas Alva Edison

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