Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Man needs his difficulties
“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.” —APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Hillary Clinton: Abortion
“We’re always going to argue about abortion. It’s a hard choice and it’s controversial, and that’s why I’m pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Rose Franken: Real lovers
Originally posted on Quite a Quote!: ”Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” —Rose Franken, author and playwright (28 Dec 1895-1988).
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Jack Dorsey: Simplify complexity
“My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.” —Jack Dorsey.
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Saoirse Ronan: Films transport us
“The written word can be powerful and beautiful – but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.” —Saoirse Ronan.
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Benjamin Netanyahu: Right combination
“The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.” —Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Elon Musk: Be less wrong
“I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.” —Elon Musk.
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Malcolm Guite: Cross of ash
“Receive this cross of ash upon your brow, Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross;The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands, The very stones themselves would shout and sing, If you could covenant to love…
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Rumi: Started looking for you
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” —Rumi.
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Donald Trump Jr: Invest in what you understand
“Look: invest in what you understand, what’s foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what’s trendy.” —Donald Trump, Jr.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda: Fall in love for a living
“Basically I have the best job in the world because I fall in love for a living. I write musicals, and musicals take a long time to write. So when you have an idea you really have to fall in love with it.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Mukesh Ambani: Ambition
“I don’t think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can’t do everything.” —Mukesh Ambani.
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Shabana Azmi: Autonomy
“It’s not the revealing clothes that are a problem, it’s the camera stripping you of your autonomy.“ —Shabana Azmi.
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Monica Johnson: Hankering
“When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer…
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Robbie Williams: Addictive success
“It‘s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.” —Robbie Williams.
