Since I started this blog I've been changing the Subtitle to different quotes to play on the main title of the site: "Words of Wisdom From The Elder". I'm not sure if anyone even reads the quotes since most people read the RSS feeds but it got me to thinking that I need to save the dang things or I'll forget them.
If nothing else I'm sure in 50 years my children will get a kick out of reading them. The quotes from The Elder (which is me of course speaking in third person) are all original. To me they are original meaning I didn't do a google search for them or look them up. They are things that I say in passing to people or they are about things that pop up in daily life. Some of them you may have thought of yourself, or even heard someone else say. They may even be twists on things you've heard before. Nevertheless, they are gems to live by. Elderisms if you will. Here they are cataloged for all time sakes.
"With enough memory and hard drive space, anything in life is possible." - The Elder, 1997
March 2007
"Never burn a bridge. You never know when life will take you back down that road." - The Elder
April 2007
"In the real world there aren’t assignments. Life is your final exam." - The Elder
May 2007
"Flattery will get you everywhere if you use it daily." - The Elder
“You got in jail on your own, you can find your own way out.” – The Elder
October 2007
"Software is ready to be scheduled for production when the last line of code is written." - The Elder
November 2007
"MVC is not God's gift to programmers." - The Elder
January 2007
"Just because it isn't pretty doesn't mean it shouldn't still be used." - The Elder (in regards to for loops)
March 2008
"Teaching is learning and then verbally throwing up on everyone." - The Elder
April 2008
"It is hard to measure what you can't see." - The Elder
May 2008
"Anything becomes intuitive if you use it long enough." - The Elder
"It has always amazed me at how fast a kitchen counter can loose a bread tie." - The Elder
June 2008
"Editing audio is just like writing code, you have to know what NOT to keep." - The Elder
August 2008
"Being negative is a recursive function that will get invoked by someone else." - The Elder
September 2008
"The hardest part of moving is moving." - The Elder
November 2008
"The hardest thing about programming is typing." - The Elder
February 2009
"Don't judge a man as to what he may be today, but rather what he can be tomorrow." - The Elder
posted @ Monday, May 28, 2007 9:21 PM