Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mark Victor Hansen: Decide what success means to you
“Before you can become successful you must decide what success means to you.” – Mark Victor Hansen.
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Pico Iyer: Curious challenge
“The curious challenge is that it’s only by living in the moment that we have the time and freedom to get a glimpse of eternity.” —Pico Iyer.
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Simon Sinek: What we do should never define us
“We can define what we do but what we do should never define us.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Ruskin: Happy in their work
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.” —John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900) .
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Charlie Munger: Perfectly amazing mental malfuncttion
“It’s your alternatives that are competing for the use of your time or money, that matter in judging whether you take action or not. And of course, those vary greatly from time to time and from company to company. And we tend to make all of our financial decisions based on our opportunity costs, just…
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Warren Buffett: Cost of capital
“Charlie and I don’t have the faintest idea what our cost of capital is at Berkshire, and we think the whole concept is a little crazy, frankly. But it’s something that’s taught in the business schools, and you have to be able to answer the questions or you don’t get out of business school. But…
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Christopher Dawson: Judaism
“Judaism has always been three things: a people or a nation, a culture or a way of life and a world religion or a spiritual ideal. Any attempt to identify it with one of these to the exclusion of the others has invariably led to a reaction and restoration of the neglected aspect.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Bertrand Russell: Because of that HATE element
“Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the Proletariat, but what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the Bourgeoisie. And it was because of that negative element — because of that HATE element — that his philosophy produced disaster.” —Bertrand Russell.
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G K Chesterton: Science only splendid when it is science
“Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion it becomes superstition.” —G K Chesterton.
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Anna Quindlen: Strong cement
“A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.” —Anna Quindlen.
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Robert G Allen: Optimists and pessimists
“Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.” – Robert G. Allen.
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J C Watts: Strength
“It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.” – J. C. Watts in Time.
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George Winters: Easier to get to the airport
“If God had intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.” – George Winters.
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Bill Cosby: No authorities on love
“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it, and those who haven’t.” – Bill Cosby
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Joan Oliver Goldsmith: Go out and make new mistakes
“In life we make the best mistakes we know how to make. Then, with luck, we go out and make new ones.” – Joan Oliver Goldsmith, How Can We Keep From Singing.
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John Steinbeck: Like marriage
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –-John Steinbeck.
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Jeff Bezos: Pattern-matching machine
“The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Paul Arden: Fix it along the way
“Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you got, and fix it along the way.” —Paul Arden.
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Paul Arden: Opportunity
“Don’t look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.” —Paul Arden.
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Napoleon Hill: Starting point of all achievement
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” — Napoleon Hill.
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Carla Bruni: Cutting out people just gives loneliness
“I don’t believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn’t give strength; it just gives loneliness.” —Carla Bruni.
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Jules Verne: Let them wear out by being read
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” —Jules Verne.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Detect differences
“Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Write a hundred
“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.” – Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Simon Sinek: Honor
“We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.” —Simon Sinek.
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W C Fields: Horse sense
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.” – W. C. Fields.
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Nick Diamos: Nobody listens
“Everybody lies, but it doesn’t matter because nobody listens.” – Nick Diamos.
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Richard Feynman: Philosophers say a great deal
“Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.” – Richard Feynman.
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George Orwell: More equal than others
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell.
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Abraham Lincoln: Coffee and tea
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” ––Abraham Lincoln.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Arrested development
“The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
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Albert Einstein: Equally wise, equally foolish
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” – Albert Einstein.
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Firesign Theatre: Seeker born every minute
“Hello seeker! Now don’t feel alone here in the New Age, because there’s a seeker born every minute.” – Firesign Theatre.
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Augusten Burroughs: Made entirely of flaws
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” –Augusten Burroughs.
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Zechariah Chafee: Fruiful and free
“Speech should be fruitful as well as free.” —Zechariah Chafee, judicial philosopher.
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Alfred North Whitehead: Seek simplicity and distrust it
“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.” – Alfred North Whitehead.
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David T Wolf: Idealism, experience and cynicism
“Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.” – David T. Wolf.
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Samuel Johnson: Intellectual labour
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” – Samuel Johnson.
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Michel de Montaigne: Saying silly things
“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Albert Guinon: Absolutely wrong or absolutely right
“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.” – Albert Guinon.
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Flannery O’Connor: Stomach it
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor.
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Epigrams in Programming: Correct unit of time
“Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?” —Epigrams in Programming, SIGPLAN, Association for Computing Machinery, September 1982.
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Fred Brooks: Simplified explanations don’t comfort software engineers
“Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.” —Fred Brooks, essay “No Silver Bullet”.
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Andrew S Tanenbaum: Defective software
“A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.” —Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 2003.
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Bill Gates: Write programs
“Interviewer: Is studying computer science the best way to prepare to be a programmer? Bill Gates: No. the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings…
