Imbolding Quotes & Sayings

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon! — John F. Kennedy

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener. — Richard Branson

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience. — William Butler Yeats

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one. — Clive James

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to. — Edsger Dijkstra

I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time. — Stewart Butterfield