effort Quotes

You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.