Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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C S Lewis: When pain is to be borne
“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.” —C S Lewis.
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Ron Lisle: Smells
“I’ve learned over the past few years that comments should be considered smells.” – Ron Lisle.
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John Romero: Logic-based creativity
“You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It’s logic-based creativity.” – John Romero.
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Seneca: Hunger and thirst
“Hunger and thirst must be avoided…they grate on and inflame the mind. It’s an old saying that quarrels are sought by the weary’ just as much, too, by the hungry and the thirsty, and by every man who yearns for anything.” —Seneca.
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William Howard Taft: Don’t be misunderstood
“Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.” — William Howard Taft.
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Dante Alighieri: Neutrality
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.” —Dante Alighieri.
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Paul Graham: What problems to solve
“In programming, the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.” —Paul Graham.
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Simon Sinek: Go slowly
“It’s better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Stuart Mill: Justly accountable
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” —John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873).
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Viktor Frankl: Find strength
“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Viktor Frankl.
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Clyde Edgerton: Fathering
“A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.” —Clyde Edgerton.
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C S Lewis: Wrong roads
“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.” —C S Lewis.
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Donald Knuth: Bugs
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. ” – Donald Knuth.
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Uday Kotak: Opportunity
“The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It’s only after it’s gone, you’d realize that you missed it.” — Uday Kotak.
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Chetan Bhagat: Will of the people
“All the intellectual hate in the world cannot fight the will of the people.” —Chetan Bhagat.
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Archbishop John O’Connor: Abortion
“What is Abortion? Do you think it’s the taking of innocent human life or don’t you? If you do, then translate it: How can we talk about a rational foreign policy or the horrors of nuclear war if we hold the position that you can take innocent human life?” —Archbishop John O’Connor.
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Archbishop John O’Connor: Rationale
“I simply don’t see the rationale in saying that a politician is for better housing, a lower rate of unemployment, a more rational foreign policy—and the only thing wrong is that he supports abortion, so it’s okay to vote for him.” —Archbishop John O’Connor
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Theo de Raadt: Linux and Microsoft
“Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.” —Theo de Raadt.
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: Superstition must go
“My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.” —Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Arrogant
“When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you. Otherwise, they would call you arrogant.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Warren Buffett: Overreaching
“The job of the board is to get the right CEO, to prevent that CEO from overreaching. Because sometimes you have some people that are very able, but they still want to take it all for themselves. But if they take nothing and they’re the wrong CEO, they’re still a disaster. So low pay itself…
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Simon Sinek: Innovation
“Innovation is not born from the dream. Innovation is born from the struggle.” —Simon Sinek.
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Unknown: Theory and practice
“Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.” —Anonymous.
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Alan Kay: Creativity
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the ‘Aha’. Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re…
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Charlie Munger: Perfect wisdom
“You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich. All you’ve got to do is have slightly more than other people, on average, over a long time.” —Charlie Munger.
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Alan Kay: Own hardware
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” —Alan Kay.
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Simon Sinek: Criticism and advice
“When we are closed to ideas what we hear is criticism. When we are open to ideas what we get is advice.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Henry Seward: Primary duties
“As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity.” —William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, Governor, and Senator (16 May 1801-1872).
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Jim Hunt: Creative mindset
“A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.” —Jim Hunt.
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Alison Jackson: It doesn’t matter
“You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room – 30 seconds of whats going on in Syria – and when youve had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we dont know what is real or fake anymore.…
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Max Frisch: Hatred
“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.” —Max Frisch, architect, playwright, and novelist (15 May 1911-1991).
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Warren Buffett: Bars
“There are things in life that you don’t have to make a decision on and that are too hard…. One of the interesting things about investment is that there’s no degree of difficulty factor…. We get paid, not for jumping over 7-foot bars, but for stepping over 1-foot bars. And the biggest thing we have…
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Simon Sinek: Then decide what to do
“Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as we can see. Then decide what to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Daphne du Maurier: Mirrors
“How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” —Daphne du Maurier, novelist (13 May 1907-1989)
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Cate Blanchett: Judgmental
“I think it’s so easy to be judgmental of other people’s decisions.” —Cate Blanchett.
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Thomas Kempis: How you should pray
“This is how you should pray: ‘Lord, if you see this to be for my good, if you judge it to be profitable for me, give me this thing to use for your honor; but if you foresee it will do me harm, impair the health of my soul, take away from me the desire…
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Christopher Dawson: War of ideas
“In the war of ideas, it’s the crudest and most simplified ideology that wins. During our own lifetimes we have seen great and highly civilized countries becoming infected by epidemics of ideological insanity, and whole populations being destroyed for the sake of some irrational slogan.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Uncle Bob: Not the language
“It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that make the language appear simple!” – Uncle Bob.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Never complain
“Never complain about people, no matter how justified. Just drive them to complain about you.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Simon Sinek: Begetting
“Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.” —Simon Sinek.
