My top 10 favourite quotes
June 30, 2024 · Personal

Here is a list of my top ten favorite quotes:
- Commander, you know everything about your stone garden. But clearly, you have not spent nearly enough time looking at it.
— Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:”The Gathering” - And so it begins.
— Kosh (to Sinclair), “Chrysalis” - I am a scientist. Nothing shocks me.
— Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you’’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
— Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham - Win, lose or draw, this thing’s going to know it was in a fight.
— Garibaldi in “Infection”, Babylon 5 - Our situation has not improved.
— Henry Jones, Indiada Jones and the last crusade - Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
— Albert Einstein (1879–1955) - We are not retreating — we are advancing in another Direction.
— General Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) - Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
— Wernher Von Braun (1912–1977) - Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I was always fascinated by insightful quotes :), back in the day I have developed Quoter and Quoter/Perl. The latter was intended to be a CGI script.