Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Carl Sagan: Science, a way of thinking
”Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers…
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Minnie Driver: So completely impossible
”I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.” —Minnie Driver.
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Paulo Coelho: New hello
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will award you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coelho.
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David Benioff: People who sleep easily
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” ― David Benioff, City of Thieves.
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Philip Mathew: Secret handbook
“Sometimes I think the Tatas have a secret handbook for hiring practices. Rarely have I met a Tata employee who is not professional, warm and courteous.” —Philip Mathew.
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Germaine Greer: Loneliness
”Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.” —Germaine Greer.
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Jennifer Wiener: Not a tragedy
“Divorce isn’t such a tragedy.A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.” —Jennifer Wiener.
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Charles Stross: Smart economists study education
”There’s a saying that goes something like this: ‘Lieutenants study tactics, colonels study strategy, generals study logistics, and field marshals study economics.’ But economists—the smart ones—study education.” —Charles Stross.
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Adlai E Stevenson: Size of a man
”You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.” —Adlai E. Stevenson.
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Alan Perlis: Programming
”A language [or framework] that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” —Alan Perlis.
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Taiichi Ohno: Better ideas than mine
”You are a fool if you do just as I say. You are a greater fool if you don’t do as I say. You should think for yourself and come up with better ideas than mine.” —Taiichi Ohno.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Genius
”Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
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Judith Orloff: True chemistry
“I don’t care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn’t for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.” —Judith Orloff.
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Ray Kroc: Quality of a leader
”The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” —Ray Kroc.
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Paul Newman: Marriage
”People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.” —Paul Newman.
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Samuel Adams: Experienced patriots
”If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” — Samuel Adams, revolutionary (1722-1803) .
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Christian Beck: Designer learning
“Stop asking whether designers should code. Instead, ask what they should be learning.” –Christian Beck.
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Virginia Woolf: Truth telling
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Warren Buffett: Uncommonly resourceful
”Our experience has been that the manager of an already high-cost operation frequently is uncommonly resourceful in finding new ways to add to overhead, while the manager of a tightly-run operation usually continues to find additional methods to curtail costs, even when his costs are already well below those of his competitors.” -Warren Buffett, 1978 Letter…
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John Galsworthy: Unhappy thoughts
“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.” —John Galsworthy.
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John Hancock: Greatest ability in business
”The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.” —John Hancock.
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Steve Jobs: Pure perseverance
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard.” —Steve Jobs, entrepreneur.
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Lord Byron: Sorrow is knowledge
”Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” —Lord Byron.
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John F Kennedy: Change
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are sure to miss the future.” —John F Kennedy.
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Albert Einstein: Like riding a bicycle
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Continuously being hungry
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Hrithik Roshan: Face value
“You should take things at face value. If someone says ‘I love you’, believe it. Don’t assume it’s all a show.” —Hrithik Roshan.
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Paul Allen: Substantive, tangible thing
”I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else’s and the research and so forth, there’s a sense of really have done something worthwhile.” —Paul Allen.
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Paul Allen: Technology
“Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don’t always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.” —Paul Allen.
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Hermann Goring: Bidding of the leaders
”The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” — Hermann Göring, Nazi military leader…
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Karan Johar: Downtime
”I don’t like holidays. I don’t like Sundays. I don’t like downtime. For me, downtime is what I do. Downtime is what I love. I don’t have a spouse, I don’t have children. I have an exceptionally accommodating mother. And I don’t have very much family. My responsibility is my company and the work I do.…
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Buzz Aldrin: Family team
”A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations.” —Buzz Aldrin.
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Bella Lewitsky: To move freely
To move freely you must be deeply rooted. -Bella Lewitsky, dancer (13 Jan 1916-2004) .
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David Kelley: Messy life
“Life is messy sometimes. Sometimes the best that you can do is to accept that it is messy, try to love it as much as you can, and move forward.” —David Kelley.
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Kevin Costner: Dreams
”I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ’reality.’” — Kevin Costner.
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Voltaire: Gift of life
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” —Voltaire.
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Woody Allen: Show business
“Show business is tough…it’s a dog-eat-dog world. No…it’s worse… it’s a dog-doesn’t-return-another-dog’s phone call.” —Woody Allen.
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Michelle Obama: Being smart
”I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.” —Michelle Obama.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Safe comfort of certainties
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.” —Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986).
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Mary Kate: Suffering
”When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that’s the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don’t always get.” —Mary Karr.
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Lewis H Lapham: Presumptuous society
”A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.” —Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (b. 8 Jan 1935).
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Martin Luther King Jr: Conscience
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s…
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Nicholson Baker: Wikipedia
”Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast.” —Nicholson Baker.
