Favourite Quotes
"Hard work puts you where good luck can find you".
Hamming (inventor of Hamming Code and Hamming window) tells a story: John Tukey (developer of FFT) was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's (Bode's plot) office and said, ``How can anybody at my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office.
My silence does not mean I agree with you. It is just that your level of ignorance rendered me speechless.
Luck favors the prepared mind (Pasteur).
A beautiful collection of interesting historical quotes about communication inventions at the page of Prof. Lozano about Myths and Realities of Communications.
The one really competitive skill is the skill of being able to learn (Seymour Papert).
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
Prediction is usually hard to make, especially about the future. (Churchill).
I like future because I have to live in it.
Future is always there but it is unevenly distributed.
Wisdom is the thing to take while happiness is the thing to give if you want them to achieve.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.(Winston Churchill)
I have not failed; I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work. (Thomas Edison)
Best Friends never have the same nature, they have the best understanding of their differences.
Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does.
Dream more while you are awake
You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. (R. Ahlswede)
It is not about being better than someone else, it is about being better than you were the day before.
Don't limit your challenges. Challenge your limits!
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different (Albert Szent Gyorgyi)