On the outside you are always changing, changing, and changing. On the inside - there is no change. (Prem Rawat)

man is not ruled by thinking. When man thinks he thinks, he usually merely feels

“The plain fact is that man is not ruled by thinking. When man thinks he thinks, he usually merely feels; and his instincts and feelings are powerful precisely in proportion as they are irrational.”
-Nicholas Murray Butler

”I deny nothing, but doubt everything.” -Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Жизнь - как линукс: Для знающих - это прекрасная штука. А для тех, кто в ней ничего не смыслит - она дерьмо :)

The only way on earth to influence other peole is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it. (Dale Carnegie)

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of friends who flatter you. (Dale Carnegie)

There's nothing else that kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors (Dale Carnegie)

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. (D.Carnegie)

The only way you can influence people is by giving them what they want. (D.Carnegie)

The difference between a goal and a dream is a written word.

Where there is will, there is a way.

Никто вам ничего не даст, пока вы сами не возьмете. Власть брали только сами. Никто власть не дает.

Только тот человек, который получает удовольствие от того, что он делает, может стать успешным. (Сергей Полонский)

Счачтьем считается только то, что вы сами для себя считаете счастьем. Успехом только то, что вы сами считаете успехом. Нет общей формулы успеха.

У каждого он свой.

Тот, кто жалеет себя, не может совершенствоваться.

Тот, кто заставляет себя достигнуть успеха, никгода его не достигнет.

Тот, кто читает себя правым, не может стать лучшим.

Кто слишком торопиться, ничего не достигнит.

“History never repeats itself ,as most people fear. People usually repeat history.” -Divine Chikobvu

# # “An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.” -Lord Chesterfield

“You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can’t keep that which belongs to someone else.” -Edgar Cayce

A good speaker is not worth as much as a good listener

Most computer crimes are much like everyday "real" crimes - they are the crimes of convenience that could be avoided by erecting a minimal deterent.

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are." - Bo Bennett

Violence has always been part of our economy --Alvin Toffler

"From the first paleolithic warrior smashed a rock into a small animal, violence has been used to produce wealth.
Taking preceded making.
It may be just a fluke, but Roget's Thesaurus, which devotes 26 lines to synonims of the word borrowing and 29 to lending, devotes fully 157 lines to alternative descriptions of taking - including "capture, "colonize", "conquer", and "kidnap", not to mention "rape", "shanghai", and "abduct"."
--Alvin Toffler "Powershift" Ch.4 "Force: the yakuza component" "Blood and show-money"

Those who know do not say; those who say do not know. --Tao

"17. A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets." --Eric Raymond "The Catheral and the Bazaar"

14. Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. --Eric Raymond "The Cathedral and t

Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The fact that either choice is available makes both more attractive.

7. Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers. ---Eric Raymond "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

6.Treating your customers as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. ---Eric Raymond "The Cathedra

"10. If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource."
11. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

"I'm basically a very lasy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do." Lazy like a fox.

Linus was keeping hos hackers/users constantly stimulated and rewarded - stimulated by the prospect of having an ego-satisfying piece of the action, rewarded by the site of constant (even daily) improvement in their work.
---Eric Raymond "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

The same applies to wikipedia.
8. Given a large enough beta-tester an co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.

averaged opinion of a mass of equally expert (or equally ignorant) observers is quite a bit more reliable a predictor than the opinion of a single randomly chosen observer. --Delphi effect

4. If you have the rigt attitude, nteresting problems will find you. ---Eric Raymond "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

3. "Plan to through one away. You will, anyhow."

2. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). --E.Raymond

necessity is the mother of invention

release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity. (Linus Torvalds's style of development according to EricR.)

prescient

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C.Clarke's Third Law)

If the traveler goes halfway of the travel each day, he can never reach his final destination, since there is always another halfway to go.

Zeno of Elea

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive” Henry Miller, Author

Life is about timing (Carl Lewis - Olympian)

preparation

Samuel Goldwyn - "Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."

persuade the person that she or he originated it

High quality power is not simply clout. Not merely the ability to get one's way, to make others do what you want, though they might prefer otherwise. High quality implies much more. It implies efficiency - using up the fewest power resources to achieve a goal. Knowledge can often be used ti make the other party like your agenda for action. It can even persuade the person that she or he originated it.
..It can transform enemy into ally. Best of all it can circumvent nasty situations in the dirst place, so as to avoid wasting force or wealth altogether. (Alvin Toffler "Powershift", Chapter 2, High quality power)