Andrew Tridgell quotes

Andrew Tridgell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students...”
-- Andrew Tridgell

#Procrastination Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.”
“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”

Source : The Law of Delay ch. 13 (1971)
“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”
“Think it over, think it under.”
“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”
“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”
“Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.”
“The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.”

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