A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), To Plan or Not To Plan
Context: To worry about tomorrow is to detract from your work today. Time you spend thinking about tomorrow is time you're not spending thinking about what to do today. The place you leave in the code because you think you'll need it tomorrow, is actually a waste of time today — and a liability tomorrow. It does more harm than good.
“Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”
Source: The Story of My Life
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Helen Keller 156
American author and political activist 1880–1968Related quotes
“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 788
Reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67. Alternately reported as "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done", reported in Jacob Morton Braude, The Complete Art of Public Speaking (1970), p. 84.
Incidentals (1904)
Context: Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.
Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”
Source: On Humanism