Quotes

One of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

You do what you can with what you have. I do not know what else there is to do... The other choice is not doing what you can with what you have, and that is worse. If you do not make the most of what you have, why live?

Choosing to be loved is not a career-limiting decision.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.