Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Cordelia Fine: Unconscious
“Never forget that your unconscious is smarter than you, faster than you, and more powerful than you. It may even control you. You will never know all of its secrets.”— Cordelia Fine.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: God playing the fool
“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum. And here they will break out into their native music, and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns,…
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Federico Fellini: Autobiographical
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” —-Federico Fellini.
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David Evans: Good coffee
“I know testers who make good devs. I know devs who make good testers. I know Scrum Masters who make good coffee.” —David Evans.
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Howard Marks: Risk, return
“For the last 45 years, and I think for the rest of time, we don’t think of ‘Good idea, bad idea.’ We think ‘Risk, return. Risk, return.’ How risky is it? Is the promised return adequate to compensate for the risk?” —Howard Marks
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Howard Marks: Coming years not similarly easy
“We’ve gone through an easy period for the last 14 years, and I believe that the coming period will be a harder period. Not a cataclysm. Not a depression. But I think people don’t recognize that the last 14 years have been unusually easy. And I believe that the coming years will not be similarly…
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Janis Joplin: Home alone
“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” —-Janis Joplin.
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Montesquieu: French
“If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman … because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.” —-Montesquieu.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Satisfied with appearances
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
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Benjamin Franklin: Little strokes fell great oaks
“Little Strokes, Fell great oaks.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Peter Bernstein: Humility
“Humility is an enormously important quality. You can’t win without it. Survival in the end is where the winners are by definition, and survival begins with humility.” —Peter Bernstein.
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Margaret Courtney: Innocent glee
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee.” —Margaret Courtney.
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Herman Melville: Puzzle
“As, in a Chinese puzzle, many pieces are hard to place, so there are some unfortunate fellows who can never slip into their proper angles, and thus the whole puzzle becomes a puzzle indeed, which is the precise condition of the greatest puzzle in the world — this man-of-war world itself.” — Herman Melville.
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Thomas Kuhn: Puzzle-solving ability
“Like any other value, puzzle-solving ability proves equivocal in application…. But the behavior of a community which makes it preeminent will be very different from that of one which does not.” — Thomas Kuhn.
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Huang Binhong: Cleverness and stupidity
“To understand that cleverness can lead to stupidity is to be close to the ways of Heaven.” — Huang Binhong.
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Mary H K Choi: Fall early, reach early
“It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early.”— Mary H.K. Choi.
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Theodore Roosevelt: No substitute for elemental virtues
“Though conditions have grown puzzling in their complexity, though changes have been vast, yet we may remain absolutely sure of one thing; that now as ever in the past, and as it will ever be in the future, there can be no substitute for elemental virtues, for the elemental qualities to which we allude when…
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Tom Dale: Purely based on popularity
“If you are choosing a JavaScript library purely based on popularity, I think you deserve what you get.” —-Tom Dale.
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Haruki Murakami: Memories
“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.” —-Haruki Murakami.
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Eric Hoffer: Inert coagulum
“The conservatism of a religion – it’s orthodoxy – is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.” — Eric Hoffer
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Danny Thorpe: Programming
“Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are.” – Danny Thorpe.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel: Admire kind people
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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Joseph Campbell: Goal of life
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” —Joseph Campbell.
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Lord Acton: Compromise and barter
“All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.” —Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton).
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Stephen A Schwarzman: Time wounds
“Time wounds all deals, sometimes even fatally.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Truth rewarded me
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.” —Simone de Beauvoir.
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Richard Hamming: Little acorns
“The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn’t the way things go.”— Richard Hamming.
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Kahlil Gibran: Radiations of their personalities
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” —Kahlil Gibran.
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Richard J Daley: Disorderly police
“The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.” -– Richard J. Daley.
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Rich Hickey: It’s about thinking
“Programming is not about typing, it’s about thinking.” — Rich Hickey.
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Benjamin Franklin: Be always at war
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Umberto Eco: Fear prophets
“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.” —-Umberto Eco.
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Max Eastman: In favor of the status quo
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” —-Max Eastman.
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J R R Tolkien: Round the corner
“Still round the corner there may wait, / a new road or a secret gate.” —-J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Isaac Asimov: Morals
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.” —Isaac Asimov.
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James Clear: Habits
“Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it. In fact, the people who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom. Without good financial habits, you will always be struggling for the next dollar. Without good health habits, you will always seem to be short on energy. Without…
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William Gass: I write because I hate
‘If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer…
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Pablo Casals: Perfect technique
“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.” —Pablo Casals.
