Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Erich M Remarque: Belongs in a museum
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.” —Erich M Remarque.
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Simon Sinek: Products
“Products should be used to reinforce, not define, who a company is.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sir Donald Bradman: Cricket
“The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career, I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.” —Sir Donald Bradman.
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Condemned to be free
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” —Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (21 Jun 1905-1980).
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Dave Cheney: Readability vs Clarity
“Readability vs Clarity. Readability is how long it took you to read a book, a paper, a program, a function, and so on. Clarity is simply; did you understand what you just read?” —Dave Cheney.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Zero-sum business
‘Advice given to any young person: “I can’t tell you what to do. I can tell who what I’ve done. I’ve instinctively never gotten into a zero-sum business, such as academia, sports, bureaucracy, etc. The mark of a zero-sum business is hierarchy.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Karolina Szczur: Writing software
“Writing software as if we are the only person that ever has to comprehend it is one of the biggest mistakes and false assumptions that can be made.” —Karolina Szczur.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Experts
“Electricians, barbers, gardeners, surgeons, tango dancers, are experts. Not economists. How do we know who’s expert?” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Kris Allen: Easy to write about a breakup
“I tell people this: It’s hard to write about walking in the park, but it’s easy to write about a breakup.” —Kris Allen.
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Jennifer S Flescher: Sisyphus and the Ants
“The story tells us Sisyphus is being punished. Over and over he has to push that boulder up and up. The mountain and God glaring. And you, you have your avalanche of moods. Pills the size of stars to nearly quell cascade and tumult. And still you step gravity amplified by incline, each hazard in…
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Lillian Hellman: Since when?
“Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?” —Lillian Hellman, playwright (20 Jun 1905-1984).
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Thomas Phelps: Managements, products and processes
“The investor trying to buy right and hold on could buy as many different stocks as appealed to him. The difference is not in the focussing of investment money but in the intent of the buyer. The trader believes that in a swift-moving, rapidly changing world, with visibility always limited, he can make a series…
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Charlie Munger: Weird behaviour
“When you have a huge convulsion…you get a lot of weird behavior…. And if you can be wise when everybody else is going crazy, sure, there will still be opportunities. But that may give you long, dull stretches if that’s your strategy.” —Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Paralyzed for some reason
“Investing is really not complicated. I mean, the basic framework for it is simple. Now, you have to work at it some to find the best pockets of undervaluation…. But you didn’t have to have a high IQ—you didn’t have to have lots of investment smarts to buy junk bonds in 2002 or even to…
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Charlie Munger: Think about your best opportunity cost
“The concept that you’re likely to find just one thing where it will make 20 percent per annum and you just sit back for the next 40 years, that tends to be dreamland. And in the real world, you have to find something that you can understand that’s the best you have available. And once…
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Warren Buffett: Tons of good ideas
“You do not have to have tons of good ideas in this business. You just have a good idea that’s worth a ton, occasionally.” —Warren Buffett (2006).
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Kathy Fagan: The Rule of Three
“One of the first I learned was the trinity, three persons in one God: father, son, and holy spirit, née ghost. Then I started writing JMJ on all my homework and tests, for good luck, but also because My ballpoint’s blue ink looked pretty beside the paper’s purple Ink, like the inside of a clamshell…
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Blaise Pascal: Experience
“Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
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Bianca Lynne Spriggs: What women are made of
“We are all ventricle, spine, lung, larynx, and gut. Clavicle and nape, what lies forked in an open palm; we are follicle and temple. We are ankle, arch, sole. Pore and rib, pelvis and root and tongue. We are wishbone and gland and molar and lobe. We are hippocampus and exposed nerve and cornea. Areola,…
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King James I: Greatest of these
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” —King James I.
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Ryan Campbell: Commenting
“Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom – you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.” — Ryan Campbell.
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Roger Ebert: Capital punishment
“The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is…
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Adrian Cantwell: Thinking
“More money is made by thinking than is ever made by buying and selling.” —Adrian Cantwell.
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Paul McCartney: The love you take
“And, in the end. The love you takeis equal to the love you make.” —Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Reputation
“If you are afraid for your reputation in ANY circle, you should NOT be in academia. Or at least you should not be a scholar.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Charlie Munger: Too hard to do
“If something is too hard to do, we look for something that isn’t too hard to do. What could be more obvious than that?” —Charlie Munger.
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George Orwell: Deny and obliterate
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell.
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Simon Sinek: Drive for order
“The drive for order interrupts the beautiful chaos needed for creativity to thrive.” —Simon Sinek.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Longest day
“The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist.
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John Sprigs: Clearing up after them
“Some people make careers out of being self-proclaimed experts (or even being over-enthusiastic amateurs); some of us have careers clearing up after them.” —John Sprigs.
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Boy George: Back of a bus
“Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.” —Boy George.
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Simon Sinek: Service
“Service is not doing what’s required of us. Service is doing more than what’s required of us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Magazine report with bookbinding
“A book is something that can be read ten years after publication. A real book, twenty. Otherwise it is a magazine report with bookbinding.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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William Butler Yeats: Rhetoric and poetry
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” —William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (13 Jun 1865-1939).
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Warren Buffett: Declining business
“It’s pretty hard in a declining business to buy things cheap enough to compensate for the decline.” —Warren Buffett.
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G K Chesterton: Supreme absurdity of the modern world
“This is, indeed, the supreme absurdity of the modern world, that it imagines that it can introduce anarchy into the intellect without introducing anarchy into the commonwealth. It imagines that it can make its thoughts go crooked and its motor-cars will still go straight.” —G K Chesterton.
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Pico Iyer: Throw the first stone
“That era that knows no sin should throw the first stone.” —Pico Iyer.
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Shane Parrish: Inertia
“A lot of things that work for you also work against you. Inertia is a great example. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’re going to get the same results you’ve always gotten. Decades get wasted expecting different results from the same inputs.” —Shane Parrish.
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Robert Heinlein: Opinion
“If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.” — Robert Heinlein.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Charlatans
“Another marker for charlatans: they don’t voice opinions that can get them in trouble.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Benjamin Franklin: Never a good war or a bad peace
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Simon Sinek: Magic
“A good question should never be wasted. The answer just might be magic.” —Simon Sinek.
