"Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result."
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"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
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""I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success.""
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"The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck"
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"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems."
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"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."
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"In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream."
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"How do I work? I grope."
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"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."
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"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."
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"But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature.""
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"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt."
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"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."
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"The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished."
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"Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do."
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"Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear."
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"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt."
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"I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants."
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"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
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"Do your work, but do your thing."
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