Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Patrick McKenzie: Every great developer
“Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.” – Patrick McKenzie.
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Candy bars
“Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.” —Gwendolyn Brooks, poet (7 Jun 1917-2000).
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Warren Buffett: Big trends
“We don’t play big trends. We don’t think about demographic trends or anything of the sort…. Big trends, they just don’t mean that much. There’s too much money to be made from year to year to think about things that take decades to manifest themselves.” –Warren Buffett.
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Louis Srygley: Art of adding bugs
“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.”- Louis Srygley.
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Deborah Tannen: Biggest mistake
“The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.” —Deborah Tannen.
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Mignon McLaughlin: Impossible
“It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.” —-Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author.
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Thomas Mann: Writing
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” —Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades.
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George T Angell: At the roots
‘I’m sometimes asked “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer: “I am working at the roots.”‘ —George T. Angell, reformer (5 Jun 1823-1909).
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Dan Rockwell: Performance conversation starters
‘Performance conversation starters: “What do you see in me that’s holding me back?” “How might I make new contributions to our organization?” “What are your aspirations for my leadership? “What are my greatest opportunities, from your point of view?”’ —Dan Rockwell.
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Howard Marks: What you pay for it
“It’s not what you buy that determines your results, it’s what you pay for it.” –Howard Marks (Mastering the Market Cycle).
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John Maynard Keynes: What do you do, sir?
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?” —John Maynard Keynes.
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Virginia Satir: Adolescents are not monsters
“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.” —Virginia Satir.
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Robert Fulghum: Learn some and think some
“Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” —Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937).
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Simon Sinek: Integrity
“Integrity is when we say the same things publicly that we say privately.” —Simon Sinek.
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Robert Fulghum: True love
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness. And call it LOVE. True love.” —Robert Fulghum, True LOVE.
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Allen Ginsberg: Inner moonlight
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” —Allen Ginsberg, poet (3 Jun 1926-1997).
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Graham & Dodd: Standards of safety
“In 1928 and 1929 there occurred a wholesale and disastrous relaxation of the standards of safety previously observed by the reputable houses of issue. This was shown in the sale of many new offerings of inferior grade, aided in part by questionable methods of presenting the facts to the public. The general collapse in values…
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Benjamin Hart: Pluralism
“Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.” —Benjamin Hart.
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Milind Soman: Smokers
“Smokers: Young enough to think they can. Old enough to think they shouldn’t. Stupid enough to think it anyway.” —Milind Soman.
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Kamala Harris: When your breath stinks
“Surround yourself with really good friends. Have people around you who cheer you on, and applaud you, and support you, and are honest with you, and tell you, you know, when your breath stinks.” —Kamala Harris.
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Jefferson Davis: Never be haughty to the humble
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.” —Jefferson Davis.
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Carol Shields: Open a book
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.” —Carol Shields, The Republic of Love.
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Ron Jeffries: When you actually need them
“Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them.” —Ron Jeffries.
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W T Sherman: Only those
“It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation”. The American Civil War General, W. T. Sherman, speaking in 1879.
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Thomas Kempis: Greater measure
“The man who ranks himself below all others and counts himself unworthy of God’s favour is better fitted for receiving that favour in greater measure.” —Thomas Kempis.
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Morgan Freeman: Be still
“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” —Morgan Freeman.
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Walt Whitman: Journey-work of the stars
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892).
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Thomas Fuchs: Best error message
“The best error message is the one that never shows up.” —Thomas Fuchs.
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Andrew Carnegie: Thine own reproach alone do fear
‘I think my optimistic nature, my ability to shed trouble and to laugh through life, making “all my ducks swans,” as friends say I do, must have been inherited from this delightful old masquerading grandfather whose name I am proud to bear. A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that…
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Clint Eastwood: Take things into your own hands
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” —Clint Eastwood.
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Clint Eastwood: Take things into your own hands
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” —Clint Eastwood.
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it. Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.” —Simon Sinek.
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Hal Clement: Speculation
“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” —Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003).
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Benjamin Franklin: Eyes of other people
“Almost all the parts of our bodies require some expense. The feet demand shoes, the legs stockings, the rest of the body clothing, and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the eyes…
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Charlie Munger: Envy
“The idea of caring that someone is making money faster [than you] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?” —Charlie…
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Tsar Peter the Great: Words spoken to the wind
“How often have I not scolded you for this, and not merely scolded you but beaten you… but nothing has succeeded, nothing is any use, all is to no purpose, all is words spoken to the wind, and you want to do nothing but sit at home and enjoy yourself.” —Tsar Peter the Great.
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Damian Conway: Documentation
“Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.” —Damian Conway.
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Simon Sinek: Lead people
“We cannot lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.” —Simon Sinek.
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John F Kennedy: Conscientious objector
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” —John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (29 May 1917-1963).
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Warren Buffett: Permanent earning power
“We don’t like having excess cash around. We like even less doing dumb deals because we do them forever. I mean, if we make a dumb deal, it just sits there. We don’t resell it three months later by having an IPO of it or something of the sort. So you’re right to say that…
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Jeff Raikes: No market
“In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what’s working, what isn’t , and how you need to change. If you don’t listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.” —Jeff Raikes.
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G K Chesterton: Optimists in revolt
“We do not hide ourselves in the universal night of pessimism. We are the optimists in revolt. If anyone cares to call us the Conservatives in revolt, the case for our revolt is all the stronger.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Idealists
“Great leaders are idealists. They are optimists. They overestimate what we are capable of and inspire us to believe the same.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: True friend
“A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.” —Simon Sinek.
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Colin Percival: Secure code
“The most secure code in the world is code which is never written.” – Colin Percival.
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Ted Nelson: User interface
“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.” – Ted Nelson.
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William Pitt: Necessity
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” —William Pitt, British prime minister (28 May 1759-1806).
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Joseph Rodman Drake: Beauty weeps the brave
“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.” — Joseph Rodman Drake.
