My favorite quotes

Some of my favorite quotes.

On life

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember, in your old age, you have to live with yourself.... Consider the kind of person you wish to be in your old age and start now being that kind of a person.
Richard Hamming
No rescuer hath the rescuer. No Lord hath the champion, no mother and no father, only nothingness above.
Eliezer Yudkowsky

On understanding

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Albert Einstein
You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
Richard Feynman
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

On work

If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you working on it?
Richard Hamming
In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
Richard Hamming