Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Max Tegmark: Not malevolence, but incompetence
“The real worry with advanced AI is not malevolence but incompetence.” —Cosmologist and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute Max Tegmark explains to the Guardian why we’re worrying about sentient machines all wrong.
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Karan Johar: Overconfidence and delusion
“Dear talent…I wish you would stay away from overconfidence and delusion…they are constantly conspiring against you… don’t you see it?” —Karan Johar.
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James Gandolfini: Vampires
“You know, all writers are vampires and they’ll look around and they watch you when you’re not even thinking they’re watching you and they’ll slip stuff in.” —James Gandolfini.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Beginning
“You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.” —Nayyirah Waheed.
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Brock Thoene: Harder
“It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go…” —Brock Thoene.
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Warren Buffett: Ability and rationality
“So why do smart people do things that interfere with getting the output they’re entitled to? It gets into the habits and character and temperament, and behaving in a rational manner. Not getting in your own way. As I said, everybody here has the ability absolutely to do anything I do and much beyond. Some…
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Lauren Bacall: Looking at yourself
“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.” —Lauren Bacall.
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J B Priestley: Respect
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.” —J B Priestley.
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Ramachandra Guha: Lessons of history
“Like other practicing historians, I am often asked what the ‘lessons of history’ are. I answer that the only lesson I have learnt from studying the past is that there are no permanent winners and losers.” —Ramachandra Guha.
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Tommy Lee Jones: Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow
“A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.” —Tommy Lee Jones.
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Patrick Dixon: Seeing the point
“I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing … than five hundred who can’t see the point.” —Patrick Dixon, business consultant.
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Simon Sinek: Expending energy
“Instead of expending energy to fit into the group, it’s better to expend energy to find the group in which we fit.” —Simon Sinek.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Belief
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader.
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Ginni Rometty: Job replacement
“When it comes to complete job replacement, it will be a very small percentage; when it comes to changing a job and what you do, it’ll be 100 percent.” — That’s the clear-eyed take on automation’s impact on the labor market from IBM CEO Ginni Rometty during a conversation with Bloomberg.
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Anne Frank: Good example
“People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example.” —Anne Frank,diarist.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Financial memory
“Let it be emphasized once more, and especially to anyone inclined to a personally rewarding skepticism in these matters: for practical purposes, the financial memory should be assumed to last, at a maximum, no more than 20 years. This is normally the time it takes for the recollection of one disaster to be erased and…
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Thomas Pynchon: Questions and answers
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” —Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937) .
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Paul Walker: Little boys
“If you spend any time with a man, you’ll realize that we’re all still little boys.” —Paul Walker.
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Rowan Atkinson: Crying in the rain
“I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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Moby: Success
“Whenever I’ve had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that’s when you learn.” —Moby.
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Simon Sinek: Two types of decisions
“There are two types of decisions: good decisions and lessons learned.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rudy Francisco: Mess and broom
“Sometimes I’m the mess. Sometimes I’m the broom. On the hardest days, I have to be both.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Joe Perry: Repercussions
“I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.” —Joe Perry.
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Simon Sinek: Great companies
“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them. Great companies hire already motivated people and inspire them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Leo Tolstoy: Condition for happiness
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” —Leo Tolstoy.
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Simon Sinek: Beautiful, imperfect dance
“Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: What and why
“Those who know WHAT they do tend to work harder. Those who know WHY tend to work smarter.” —Simon Sinek.
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Gabrielle Zevin: Someday
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this very moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.” —Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac.
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Jennifer Tejada: Customers don’t care
“Customers don’t care why something doesn’t work.” ___ Jennifer Tejada, PagerDuty CEO, PagerDuty Summit 2017
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Pink: Consumerism
“Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general.” —Pink.
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Lisa Kleypas: Cruel sense of humor
“Sometimes, life has a cruel sense of humour, giving you the thing you wanted at the worst possible time.” —Lisa Kleypas.
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Howard Marks: Overpermissive
“Overpermissive providers of capital frequently aid and abet financial bubbles. . . . In Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner was told, ‘if you build it, they will come.’ In the financial world, if you offer cheap money, they will borrow, buy and build – often without discipline, and with very negative consequences.” -Howard Marks (November…
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Queen Elizabeth II: No single formula for success
“I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.” —Queen Elizabeth II.
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Lang Leav: Sad writers
“I don’t think all writers are sad, she said. I think it’s the other way around—all sad people write.” —Lang Leav, Sad Girls.
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Marquis de Lafayette: Hands of the clergy
“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.” —Marquis de Lafayette.
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Mandy Hale: Heartbreak
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we are settling for.” —Mandy Hale.
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Atsushi Horiba: Reading too many comic books
“Any academic who says 100 percent of cars will be electric in the future has been reading too many comic books.” — Atsushi Horiba, whose firm builds 80 percent of the world’s car emissions-testing equipment, tells Bloomberg that visions of an all-electric future are overblown.
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Cardinal Richelieu: Six lines
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” —Cardinal Richelieu.
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Beyonce Knowles: Nervous energy
“I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.” —Beyonce Knowles.
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Byron Katie: Reality
“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.” —Byron Katie,writer and speaker.
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Charlie Sheen: Nothing
“You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.” —Charlie Sheen.
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Christopher Morley: Little water
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957).
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Keanu Reeves: Two different things
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” —Keanu Reeves.
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Simon Sinek: Focus
“Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.” —Simon Sinek.
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Herbert J Muller: Cosmic bellhop
“The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.” —Herbert J. Muller, educator, historian, and author (1905-1980).
