Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Harry Hillaker: Useful purpose
“No systems can survive that doesn’t serve a useful purpose.” —Harry Hillaker.
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Alexandra Hudson: Dissatisfaction
“Dissatisfaction is baked into the human experience, keeping us all forever on the move, on the hunt, looking for the next thing. As tragic as this is, it is here we find the source of progress in the world, the unending search for a better life. And it is always a search, one that requires…
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George Herbert Walker Bush: Hairdos
“When it comes to the minds and hairdos of our young people, something had to be done.” —George Herbert Walker Bush.
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Ellen Ullman: On top of ruins
“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” – Ellen Ullman.
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Simon Sinek: Strengths
“Offer our strengths to others and we will be amazed how many people offer their strengths to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Constable: Make it beautiful
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” —John Constable, painter (11 Jun 1776-1837).
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Charlie Munger: Welcome partners
“With all of these new helpers in the world, they talk about doing deals. That is not the mindset at Berkshire. We are trying to welcome partners. It’s a total different mindset. The guy who’s doing a deal, he wants to do the deal and unwind the deal and — not too far ahead and…
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G K Chesterton: Sport
“Sport is not so much a modern relaxation as a new religion; and is more serious and unsmiling even than most new religions.” —G K Chesterton.
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Wolfgang Pauli: Speculative ideas
“If speculative ideas cannot be tested against established principles to assess their validity, they are not credible. They don’t even rise to the level of being wrong.” — Wolfgang Pauli.
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Joyce Wheeler: Pause
“Sometimes it’s better to leave something alone, to pause, and that’s very true of programming.” – Joyce Wheeler.
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Maurice Sendak: Like a lover
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.” —Maurice Sendak.
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Simon Sinek: Most effective way to rebel
“The most effective way to rebel against structure and tear down walls is first to understand the structure we aim to reinvent.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Why Christians are told not to judge
“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.” —C S Lewis.
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Martin Fowler: Write code that humans understand
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” —Martin Fowler.
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Warren Buffett: Only one vote
“The only thing you can do about it — but you only have one vote — is to elect leaders who are terribly conscious of the problem and who devote a significant part of their thought and energy into minimizing it. You can’t eliminate it. The genie is out of the bottle. And you would…
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Charlie Munger: Nuclear devices
“I think that the chances we’ll have another 60 or 70 years with no nuclear devices used on purpose is pretty close to zero. So, I think you’re right to worry about it, but I don’t, myself, think there’s much that any of us can do about it, except be as sensible as we can…
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Tim Lister: Project Management IS Risk Management
“Just exactly what is it we manage on projects if not risks? Project management IS risk management. The risk-aware manager can show you a substantial list of causal risks. He/she can tell you the likely cost in time or money should the risk materialize, and point to a specific set of materialization indicators and contingency…
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G K Chesterton: Free thought
“If free thought means that we are not free to rebuke free-thinkers, it is surely a very one-sided sort of free thought. It means that they may say anything they choose about all we hold most dear, and we must not say anything we think in protest against all we hold most damnable.” —G K…
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Tim Berners-Lee: Propensity to dream
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” —Tim Berners-Lee.
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Dan Rockwell: Secrets strangle engagement
“Secrets strangle engagement. No one feels engaged when upper management drops stingy nuggets of information to the minions on the frontline.” —Dan Rockwell.
