Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Tom DeMarco: Unreasonable expectation
“If you’ve been in the software business for any time at all, you know that there are certain common problems that plague one project after another. Missed schedules and creeping requirements are not things that just happen to you once and then go away, never to appear again. Rather, they are part of the territory.…
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Bertrand Russell: Nervous breakdown
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” – Bertrand Russell.
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Matthew Hussey: Pain
“Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.” —Matthew Hussey.
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Richard Clarke: IT security
“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.” —Richard Clarke.
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Camila Cabello: Dreams bigger than fears
“I am so proud to be Cuban-Mexican. This country was built on immigrants. People who were brave enough to start over. How strong we are to leave behind everything we know in hopes of something better. We are not fearless, we just have dreams bigger than our fears. We jump. We run. We swim, we…
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Sebastian Kurz: Gets better with each passing day
“We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don’t have to despair just because you’re young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.” —Sebastian Kurz.
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Rob Delaney: As I experience it
“With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.” —Rob Delaney.
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Amal Clooney: Pragmatic
“Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.” —Amal Clooney.
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George Clooney: Personal life
“I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.” —George Clooney.
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Robert Wagner: Law changed
“I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you’re deceased and there’s nothing you can do about it.” —Robert Wagner.
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Hillary Clinton: Families will flourish
“If women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations will flourish.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Kaiser Wilhelm: Beer
“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.” —Kaiser Wilhelm.
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Taylor Swift: Fearless
‘To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before.…
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David Copperfield: Magicians
“Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.” —David Copperfield.
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Pierre de Coubertin: Amicable trials
“Wars break out because nations misunderstand each other. We shall no have peace until the prejudices which now separate the different races shall have been outlived. To attain this end, what better means than to bring the youth of all countries periodically together for amicable trials of muscular strength and agility.” —Pierre de Coubertin.
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Taylor Swift: Prince Charming and the bad guy
“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow…
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Mitchell Baker: Data protection
“Data protection is a critical tool for guaranteeing fundamental rights of privacy. It is particular important today as Aadhaar is being driven deeper into all aspects of life. Digital identity can bring many benefits, but it can also become a surveillance and privacy disaster. A strong data protection law is key to avoiding disaster.” —Mitchell…
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Mitchell Baker: Humanity is smart
“Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.” —Mitchell Baker.
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Rupi Kaur: Beautiful
“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful before i’ve called them intelligent or brave i am sorry i made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is all you have to be proud of when you have broken mountains with your wit from now on…
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Eric McCormack: History
“There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time… That’s the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it’s not going anywhere.” —Eric McCormack.
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Debra Messing: Endgame of life
“When you’re passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.” —Debra Messing.
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John Adams: Liberty
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.” —John Adams.
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Katherine Johnson: We will always have STEM
“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.” —Katherine Johnson.
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Steven Spielberg: Technology
“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.”…
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Edward Teller: Science of today
“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” —Edward Teller.
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Hillary Clinton: Without fracturing communities
“What we have to do… is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Jennifer Lopez: High standards
“I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.”…
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Saoirse Ronan: Teenagers
“The majority of teenagers don’t even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.” —Saoirse Ronan.
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Paris Hilton: Birthday
“The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.“. —Paris Hilton.
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Joan Collins: Beauty
“The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.” —Joan Collins.
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Laura Lee: Love
“I’ve been in love and it doesn’t last. And when it’s over, it’s hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.” —Laura Lee.
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Amitabh Bachchan: Cinematic reflection
“Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what’s happening in the world.” —Amitabh Bachchan.
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Rose McGowan: Work out
“I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.” —Rose McGowan.
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Taylor Swift: Be respectful
” We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. ” —Taylor Swift.
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Elon Musk: Magic
“If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.”…
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Richard Branson: Gut feeling
“I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.” —Richard Branson.
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Joaquin Phoenix: Movie and character
“Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it’s just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.” —Joaquin Phoenix.
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Amy Schumer: Love yourself
“Love yourself. You don’t need a man, or a boy, or a self-proclaimed love expert to tell you what you’re worth. Your power comes from who you are and what you do. You don’t need all that noise – that constant hum in the background telling you whether or not you’re good enough.” —Amy Schumer,The…
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Harold MacMillan: Sense of purpose
“If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.” —Harold Macmillan.
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Charles Lamb: Leaking
“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one’s soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive – you are leaking. ” —Charles Lamb.
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Ringo Starr: Ambition
“Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.” —Ringo Starr.
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Jeff Garzik: Bitcoin
“When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought it was impossible. How can you have a purely digital currency? Can’t I just copy your hard drive and have your bitcoins? I didn’t understand how that could be done, and then I looked into it and it was brilliant.” —Jeff Garzik.
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Mahesh Murthy: Money and salary
“Once you stop worrying about money and salary, interesting things happen after that.” —Mahesh Murthy.
