Siobhán Loughman Sabino

Quotes

"Who blew up the pipeline?" If you like this sort of drama every morning, consider becoming a Data Engineer


the reason why we write SQL commands all in caps is bc it stands for screaming query language


Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.
There is no reality except in action.

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

That’s what I consider true generosity: you give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

— Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal

Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change.
In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

— Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion. I am very thankful.

— Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month

I saw and heard, and knew at last
The How and Why of all things, past,
and present, and forevermore.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus, Retour to Tipasa

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

— Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

— journal of Søren Kierkegaard

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

— Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes."

— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

— Federico Fellini

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

— John Pentland Mahaffy

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

— Orson Welles