inspirational quotes for work

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


How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. ~Dorothy Parker


They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. ~Arthur Schopenhauer


Hate the sin and love the sinner. ~Mohandas Gandhi


The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945


The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green


The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. ~Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945


My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? ~Kotomichi


A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. ~Martin H. Fischer


Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham


Deja Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before. ~Author Unknown


My heaviness comes from the heights. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~Charles Baudelaire


For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Beauty draws us with a single hair. ~Alexander Pope


Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown


Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. ~Edward Abbey


Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is to small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom


Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. ~Bertrand Russell, What I Believe, 1925