Aphorisms

Objective

The objective is to list aphorisms because they proved to be useful or for some other reason.

Result

• Le silence est d'or, la parole est d'argent.
• Measure twice, cut once.
• There will always be an army in your country, if it's not yours, then it will be your neighbor's.
• You don't swim in the same river twice.
• The only real danger is man himself.
• Where there's a will, there's a way.
• Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
• It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
• In preparing for battle, plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• The tail does not wag the dog.
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
• If you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
• If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
• Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you.
• Roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes.
• History is written by the victors.
• Vae victis.
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
• The map is not the directory.
• Science progresses one funeral at a time.
• A little science estranges men from God, but much science leads them back to Him.
• Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.
• Mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your writing is.
• Programming is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is.
• Coding is to programming what typing is to writing.
• Fail fast.
• Make it simple, make it correct, make it fast.
• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
• All models are wrong ; a few are useful.
• Fund people, not projects.
• À vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire.
• Le gouvernement avait le choix entre la guerre et le déshonneur ; il a choisi le déshonneur et il aura la guerre.
• On reconnait l'arbre a ses fruits.
• Le fruit ne tombe jamais loin de l'arbre.
• Primum non nocere.
• Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
• One actor is no actor.
• Observe, decide, act.
• Storage, computation, communication.
• If it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, and otherwise behaves like a duck; then you can't tell that it isn't a duck.
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
• not see the forest for the trees