Quotes from the Gel 2011 game, "Restore"

At Gel 2011 last week we played a game I designed for the conference, called Restore, which divided attendees into teams and challenged them to restore a quote from snippets shown on their badges.

Several Gel attendees have asked for the quotes. Here they are:

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.'
- Asimov

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You can accomplish anything you want in life provided you don't mind who gets the credit.
- Harry S Truman

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Indian proverb: Empathy is not just about stepping into another's shoes. First you must remove your own shoes.

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Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.
- Feynman

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African proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

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Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
- Warren Buffett

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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- Stephen King

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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Grace Hopper

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
- Longfellow

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Nothing is built on stone, all is built on sand; but we must build as if the sand were stone.
- Borges

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Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Emerson

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
- T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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• May 4, 2011
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