Borowiecki Quotes & Sayings

Perfect is the enemy of good. — Voltaire

when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories. — Buddy Valastro

If you automate a process that has errors, all you've done is automate the generation of those errors. — W.L.W. Borowiecki

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase. — Warren Zevon

A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished. — Carrie Newcomer

What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on! — Gail Porter

Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness ... — John Wyndham

Them again, and all would change to dull reality
the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds
the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep- bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy
and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all thy other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard
while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she pictured to herself — Lewis Carroll

I never seemed to learn from joy; I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness. — Pat Conroy

If you think automating a process will reduce or eliminate the errors currently in that process, all you'll really be doing is automating the generation of those errors. — W.L.W. Borowiecki

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated. — Nolan North

More than Peanut M&Ms, — R.S. Grey

worked hard at it, all these months, trying to get my knee back in shape - again. I'd dealt with my first catastrophic knee injury four years ago, a training accident that occurred right after I returned from my first Olympics empty-handed. "But that's the point, Bly. I went through surgery — Laney Monday