Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dr. Lawrence Chung: Failures will happen
“The only way to have a perfect system is to have perfect humans design and operate the systems. That is not possible. So failures will happen.” —Dr. Lawrence Chung.
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Alexander Fleming: Lone worker
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject, the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.” —Alexander Fleming.
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Simon Sinek: Reason, not just a place
“Give people a reason to come to work, not just a place to go to work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Wendell Berry: Downstream and upstream
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” —Wendell Berry, farmer and author (b. 5 Aug 1934).
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Guy de Maupassant: Memory
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” —Guy de Maupassant.
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Ben Johnson: Negligent speech
“Negligent speech doth not only discredit the person of the Speaker, but it discrediteth the opinion of his reason and judgment; it discrediteth the force and uniformity of the matter, and substance.” —- Ben Johnson.
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G K Chesterton: Right is right
“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Marvin Bell: Rules
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.” —Marvin Bell.
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James Baldwin: Criticize her perpetually
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” —James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987).
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Richard P Feynman: Reality
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman, What do You Care What Other People Think?.
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Myrna Loy: Private in public
“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.” —Myrna Loy.
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Simon Sinek: Formula for success
“There may be patterns for the things that succeed, that doesn’t means there’s a formula for success.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlie Munger: Reliable
“If you make yourself a very reliable person and stay reliable all your life, faithfully doing whatever you engage to do, it will be very hard for you to fail at anything you want.” —Charlie Munger.
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G K Chesterton: Why I am a Catholic
‘The difficulty of explaining “why I am a Catholic” is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.’ —G K Chesterton.
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Chuck D: Government and culture
“Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces – the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.” —Chuck D.
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Melinda Varian: Working on something else
“The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else.” – Melinda Varian.
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G K Chesterton: Cunning to copy him
“I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him — rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.” —G K Chesterton.
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John Hall: Means of grace
“Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes, – these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.” —John Hall, pastor (31 Jul 1829-1898).
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George Orwell: Foolish thoughts
“The English Language … becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” —-Geroge Orwell.
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Ken Thompson: 1000 lines of code
“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” — Ken Thompson.
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Emily Bronte: Results
“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.” —-Emily Bronte, novelist (30 Jul 1818-1848).
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Intellect without balls
“Intellect without balls is like a racecar without tires.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Emily Bronte: Tyrant
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.” —Emily Bronte.
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Simon Sinek: Art of leadership
“The art of leadership is about inspiring people to build something, not threatening to break something.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Excel
“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.” —Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (29 Jul 1805-1859).
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Thomas Merton: Sailing to the moon
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?” —Thomas Merton.
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Shirish Kunder: Aggression of fools
“The words of the wise will be silenced by the aggression of fools.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Newspapers
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Jackie Kennedy: Brought about by words
“Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. . . All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.” —Jackie Kennedy.
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Vincent Canby: Television sets
“We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.” —Vincent Canby.
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Simon Sinek: Work-life safety
“We will only have work-life balance when we feel safe at home and feel safe at work.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Birth control
“Modern people insist on talking about Birth Control when they mean less birth and no control.” —G K Chesterton.
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Buzz Williams: No excuses
“A coach can help you with your mistakes, but NOBODY can help you with your excuses.” -– Buzz Williams.
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Sandra Bullock: Fame
“Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.” —Sandra Bullock.
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Eric Hoffer: When it is worth minding
“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind…
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Josephine Tey: Lack of education
“Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.” —Josephine Tey.
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Amelia Earhart: Cake bakers
“So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.” —Amelia Earhart.
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Charlie Munger: Rare person
“If the business is good enough, it will carry a lousy manager. And the converse case, where a really good manager gets in a really lousy business, he’ll ordinarily have a very imperfect record. In other words, it’s a rare person that can take over a textile business, totally doomed—which is what Warren [Buffett] did…
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Cathy Song: This wonderful opportunity
“May all beings, seen and unseen, be well, happy, and peaceful, including ourselves.May there be peace in the world, peace in our hearts, peace in our minds.May we use this wonderful opportunity of human life to awaken.May we be grateful for wisdom and compassion,this infinite boundlessness that surrounds us,waiting to be used by us, to…
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Amelia Earhart: Decision to act
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” —Amelia Earhart.
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Natalie Shapero: And also with you
“The comet taught us how to watch the war.The comet contended that fireis romantic and recommended we each behold it alone,envisioning out there somewhere our nextlover, craning up at this same sky.Was the comet simply endeavoringto keep us divided, I asked it, and the cometdid not reply. Then we discovered the menwho wanted us deadwere…
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Raymond Thornton Chandler: Television
“Television’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don’t have to concentrate. You don’t have to react. You don’t have…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Those who can’t do shouldn’t teach
‘The saying goes “those who can, do; those who can’t do, teach”. But I’ve shown that those who can’t do shouldn’t teach.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
