Thomas Cocuzza26 quotes

TodaySep 16, 2026

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Tom's Favorite Quotes26

  • Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

    Kent Beck

  • I am a great believer in Luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

    Coleman Cox

  • Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

    Albert Einstein

  • Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

    Peter Drucker

  • The best way out is always through.

    Robert Frost

  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

    Donald Knuth

  • Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

    Proverb

  • Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away.

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

    Linus Torvalds

  • You can't manage what you can't measure.

    Peter Drucker

  • Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.

    Proverb

  • Hope is not a strategy.

    Traditional (SRE)

  • A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.

    George S. Patton

  • The only way to go fast is to go well.

    Robert C. Martin

  • Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. If a man values productive work, his happiness is the measure of his success in the service of his life.

    Ayn Rand

  • The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

    Ayn Rand

  • You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

    Blaise Pascal

  • Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid.

    John Wayne (attributed)

  • If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

    Albert Einstein (attributed)

  • If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.

    Lewis Carroll (paraphrased)

  • Surround yourself with people who will leap out of the dugout should you ever charge the mound.

    Unknown

  • Ain't no sense worrying. If you have no control over something, ain't no sense worrying about it — you have no control over it anyway. If you do have control, why worry? So either way, there ain't no sense worrying.

    Mickey Rivers