<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Quotes on Andy Foster</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/</link><description>Recent content in Quotes on Andy Foster</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-GB</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://andyfoster.net/quotes/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Nothing left to take away</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/perfection/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/perfection/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Make it work</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/make-it-work/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/make-it-work/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Make it work, make it right, make it fast.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The details</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/details-make-the-design/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/details-make-the-design/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The details are not the details. They make the design.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Programs are for people</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/programs-for-people/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/programs-for-people/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A faster horse</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/a-faster-horse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/a-faster-horse/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;rsquo;d listened to customers, I&amp;rsquo;d have given them a faster horse.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A perfect day</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/a-perfect-day/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/a-perfect-day/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;rsquo;t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A players</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/a-players/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/a-players/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A players hire A players; B players hire C players.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Activity and achievement</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/activity-and-achievement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/activity-and-achievement/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Never mistake activity for achievement.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>After you know it all</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/after-you-know-it-all/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/after-you-know-it-all/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s what you learn after you know it all that counts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Be the change</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/be-the-change/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/be-the-change/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Be the change you wish to see in the world.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Character and reputation</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/character-and-reputation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/character-and-reputation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Done is better than perfect</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/done-is-better-than-perfect/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/done-is-better-than-perfect/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Done is better than perfect.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Drills and holes</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/drills-and-holes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/drills-and-holes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;People don&amp;rsquo;t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Excellence is a habit</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/excellence-is-a-habit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/excellence-is-a-habit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ezekiel 25:17</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/ezekiel-25-17/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/ezekiel-25-17/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Faith is a cop-out</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/faith-is-a-cop-out/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/faith-is-a-cop-out/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can&amp;rsquo;t be taken on its own merits.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Give him power</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/give-him-power/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/give-him-power/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man&amp;rsquo;s character, give him power.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Making the best of it</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/the-best-of-the-way-things-turn-out/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/the-best-of-the-way-things-turn-out/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Motivation and habit</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/motivation-and-habit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/motivation-and-habit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No one will tell you</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/no-one-will-tell-you/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/no-one-will-tell-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;No one will tell you to do it. If it&amp;rsquo;s important, think about it, set a time to do it, and do it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Normal</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/normal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/normal/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Of the people</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/government-of-the-people/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/government-of-the-people/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Our deepest fear</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/our-deepest-fear/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/our-deepest-fear/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Perfect valour</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/perfect-valour/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/perfect-valour/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Perfect valour is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Releasable, then perfect</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/make-it-releasable/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/make-it-releasable/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Make it releasable, then make it perfect.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Someday</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/someday/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/someday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Specialization is for insects</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/specialization-is-for-insects/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/specialization-is-for-insects/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The average of five</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/average-of-five/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/average-of-five/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The biggest risk</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/the-biggest-risk/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/the-biggest-risk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The biggest risk is not taking any risk.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>This day will never dawn again</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/this-day-will-never-dawn-again/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/this-day-will-never-dawn-again/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Think that this day will never dawn again.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Time to do it over</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/time-to-do-it-over/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/time-to-do-it-over/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;rsquo;t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Two classes of people</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/two-classes-of-people/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/two-classes-of-people/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Two rabbits</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/two-rabbits/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/two-rabbits/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What you can do</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/what-you-cannot-do/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/what-you-cannot-do/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Where the fewest go</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/the-fishing-is-best/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/the-fishing-is-best/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The fishing is best where the fewest go.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Your critics</title><link>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/your-critics/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andyfoster.net/quotes/your-critics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>