Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Melinda Gates: Population sizes
“When more children live past the age of 5, and when mothers can decide if and when to have children, population sizes don’t go up. They go down. Parents have fewer children when they’re confident those children will survive into adulthood. Big families are in some ways an insurance policy against the tragic likelihood of…
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Mike Pence: Civility in heavy doses
“Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, ‘I’m a conservative, but I’m not in a bad mood about it.’ I’ve always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.” —Mike Pence.
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Lena Dunham: Success
“It ‘s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself. ” —Lena Dunham.
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Jacob Zuma: Criminality
“Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have – we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy – must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.” —Jacob Zuma.
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Satoshi Nakamoto: Root problem with conventional currency
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend…
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Melania Trump: Choosing not to go political
“Because of who my husband is, and our life, and also he is number one in the polls – well, you take that all together, and people are very curious about me. I’m choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband’s job. I’m very political in private life, and between me…
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Ivanka Trump: Scale
“A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It’s impossible to maintain.” —-Ivanka Trump.
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Jeremy Bentham: Lawyers
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.” —Jeremy Bentham.
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Galileo Galilei: Humble reasoning of a single individual
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” —Galileo Galilei.
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Michel de Montaigne: Pleasures and pains
“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.” -Michel de Montaigne.
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Camila Cabello: Three years old
“NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU GET, CRYING IN YOUR MOM’S ARMS WILL ALWAYS MAKE YOU FEEL 3 YEARS OLD” —Camila Cabello.
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Paul Graham: Users
“The least sophisticated users tell you what you need to simplify and clarify while the most sophisticated users tell you what features you need to add.” —Paul Graham.
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Boris Johnson: Chances of being PM
“My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.” —Boris Johnson.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Other people exist
“Teenagers only have to focus on themselves – its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.” —Jennifer Lawrence.
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Vitalik Buterin: Cryptocurrency protocols
“Cryptocurrency Protocols Are Like Onions… One common design philosophy among many cryptocurrency 2.0 protocols is the idea that, just like the internet, cryptocurrency design would work best if protocols split off into different layers. Under this strain of thought, Bitcoin is to be thought of as a sort of TCP/IP of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and…
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Eric Clapton: Some kind of pilgrimage
“I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.” —Eric Clapton.
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George Jean Nathan: Patriotism
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.” —George Jean Nathan, author and editor (14 Feb 1882-1958).
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Bill Paxton: Con men
“I’ve always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.” —Bill Paxton.
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Tara Lipinski: Acting and skating
“Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.” —Tara Lipinski.
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Mark Twain: Mardi Gras in New Orleans
“It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.” — Mark Twain.
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Marty Allen: Best time to buy anything
“A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.” —Marty Allen.
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Nikki Haley: Get ego out of the room
“I think it’s very important to get ego out of the room. I think it’s important to realize it takes two hands to clap – stop the pointing, stop the blame game. I think we’ve seen enough of that, I think the country is tired of it. I think they want to see Washington function,…
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Angelina Jolie: Life’s challenges
“Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.” ― Angelina Jolie.
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Imtiaz Ali: Ask your mom!
“Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don’t believe it, ask your mom!” —Imtiaz Ali.
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Sushma Swaraj: One must read Gita
“Eating chocolates or popping pills won’t reduce depression.Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life.” —Sushma Swaraj.
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Hillary Clinton: Untapped reservoir
” Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. ” —Hillary Clinton.
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Minnie Driver: Being Minnie Driver
“People go ‘You look a lot like Minnie Driver.’ Once I said, ‘Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.’ But, it blew up in my face. This person said, ‘Nah, didn’t like the last movie she did.’” —Minnie Driver.
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Uma Bharti: Access
“One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.” —Uma Bharti.
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Angelina Jolie: Sexism
” Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring. ” —Angelina Jolie.
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Winston Churchill: Best argument against democracy
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – – – Winston Churchill.
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Daniel Kahneman: Frequent repetition
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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Dan Coats: Major attack
“A major attack on our cyber systems could shut down our critical infrastructure – financial systems, communications systems, electric grids, power plants, water treatment centers, transportation systems and refineries – that allows us to run our economy and protect the safety of Americans. ” —Dan Coats.
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Julian Assange: Horses and carriages
“Where they couldn’t pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.” —Julian Assange.
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Madhubala: Evil experience
“It is true that one learns something from every experience but when the experience is evil, the shock is so great that one feels as though one can never recover from it.” —Madhubala.
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Ivanka Trump: Running
” Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It’s a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push…
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Steve Wynn: Allure, intrigue
“What’s the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful… It taunts you.” —Steve Wynn.
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Simon Sinek: True love
“True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Frederick Douglass: Denied safety
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” —Frederick Douglass.
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Eugene Fama: Unexplainable swings
“Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.” —Eugene Fama.
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Tom Hodgkinson: Terrible thing
“The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won’t give you what you need.” —Tom Hodgkinson.
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Nicole Kidman: Very brave thing
“It‘s a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that’s very difficult, really difficult and very brave.” —Nicole Kidman.
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Pieter Wuille: Bitcoin
“Bitcoin enables certain uses that are very unique. I think it offers possibilities that no other currency allows. For example the ability to spend a coin that only occurs when two separate parties agree to spend the coin; with a third party that couldn’t run away with the coin itself.” —Pieter Wuille.
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Beyonce Knowles: Not my focus
“I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s…
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Pope Francis: Little bit of mercy
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.” —Pope Francis.
