Quotes

ora et labora

– Pray and Work (From Rule of St. Benedict)

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

~ Langston Hughes ~

When I’m killed,

don’t think of me

Buried there in Cambrin Wood,

Nor as in Zion

think of me

With the Intolerable Good.

And there’s one thing

that I know well,

I’m damned if I’ll be damned to Hell!

So when I’m killed,

don’t wait for me,

Walking the dim corridor;

In Heaven or Hell,

don’t wait for me,

Or you must wait for evermore.

You’ll find me buried,

living-dead

In these verses that you’ve read.

So when I’m killed,

don’t mourn for me,

Shot, poor lad,

so bold and young,

Killed and gone — don’t mourn for me.

On your lips my life is hung:

O friends and lovers,

you can save

Your playfellow from the grave.

Robert Graves

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The Buck

There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.
—Steve Jobs

Simplicity

When you’re forced to be simple, you’re forced to face the real problem. When you can’t deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance.
– Paul Graham

The binary number system

The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory,
in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system.

But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay:
for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
— Matthew 5:37

Well now we know that its not just mathematics that invented things early. :p