Meet and greet

[mikeizbicki]

Hi everyone!

Your first tasks in this class are to:

1. Sign up for github (if you don't already have an account).

2. Press the "watch" button at the top of this page.

   (All class communication will go through github, and watching this repo will cause you to get email notifications about everything.)

3. Reply to this post with a favorite quote of yours.

[mikeizbicki]

Hey everyone,

This is Mike Izbicki, and one of my favorite quotes is by Kurt Lewin:

Nothing is quite so practical as a good theory.

[mvalsania]

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” ― George Bernard Shaw

[bbell25cmc]

Hi! This is Brenna Bell. Here's one of my favorite quotes: "What's life without a little risk?" - Sirius Black

[ArshChhabra]

Hi! This is Arsh Chhabra here. One of my favorite quotes is: "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain." -Pierre de Fermat

[buffeinstein]

My name is Ambika, and I like this quote:

"'You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky' - Michael Scott"

[Oman0514]

My name is Owen Benjamin, and my favorite quote is:

"I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

[kjiang25]

Hey everyone, my name is Kevin Jiang. I don't have a favorite quote in particular but I like David Goggins' quote, "Who's gonna carry the boats".

[nicholaslasko123]

Hi! I'm Nicholas Laskowski, and my favorite quote is: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." -Patches O'Houlihan

[fi0112358]

Hi, my name is Fiona! I like this quote:

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” -- Thomas Edison

[brookefeinberg]

Hi, my name is Brooke! One of my favorite quotes is "Engage in curiosity and empathy before we go straight to judgment." - Constance Wu

[kbyung]

Hi! I'm William Koh, and my favorite quote is: "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[angelinatsai04]

Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.

― Liu Cixin [The Three-Body Problem]

[tylerheadley]

I don't have a favorite quote in mind but here is an interesting one from a reading for another class:

To be objective is to aspire to knowledge that bears no trace of the knower.

– Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity

[avagreyyy4]

Hi! I'm Ava Grey. My favorite quote is: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

[TCHEN621130]

Hi! I am Terence Chen and here is my favorite quote from character Duncan Idaho in Dune (2021) by Denis Villeneuve:

Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we’re awake.

[stell25]

Hi! I'm Stella Cheng, and my favorite quote is "Magic is real you fools, it happens when you make your friends smile" - from a random tumblr post.

[Eduardo-Mellado013]

Hi this is Eduardo Mellado! One of my favorite quotes is "First impressions last. You start behind the eight ball, you'll never get in front." This was said by Harvey Specter in the show Suits.

[afr13dman]

Hi! I'm Anne. A quote I like is

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

Calamity Jane

[missangie23]

Hey class, this is Angie. In the spirit of senior year, I leave here two of my favorite quotes/sayings of all time (cuz I'm indecisive as hell): "What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." - Jack Kerouac

"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. (Everything changes, but nothing is lost.)" - some dude that spoke Latin

[lwaltersscr]

“Impossible, is not a fact. It’s an opinion." - Muhammad Ali

[kt-k10]

This is a quote by Cormac McCarthy that I read recently and enjoyed: "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

[SybelFrancois]

Hey guys,

I am Sybel. Mine would be:

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Norman Vincent Peale

[jaytsairenaker]

Hi everyone! My name is Jay, and one of my favorite quotes is from the therapist Lori Gottlieb:

“Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.”

[LukeF2]

Hi, my name is Luke.

"Belief in yourself has to be earned" - Roger Federer

[YiqiSun1]

Hi, my name is Andy.

This quote sticks with me for a while. "it's not necessary to tell all you know." - Harper Lee