Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Colbie Caillat: Relationships
“I don’t take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it’s like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to…
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Simon Sinek: Work ethic and passion
“Work ethic is giving great effort to complete a task. Passion is giving great energy to progress an ideal.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders who care
“The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Test of democracy
“The test of democracy is not whether the people vote, but whether the people rule.” G K Chesterton.
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Shane Parrish: Relationship misery
‘So much relationship misery arises from one person reaching out to another and saying “are you there?… am I important to you” and the other person says “I’m busy right now. I’ll tell you later.”’ —Shane Parrish.
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Hubert Humphrey: Not socialism
“Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” —Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May 1911-1978).
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Julius Caesar: Language
“Language is a powerful weapon, and in the hands of a skilled person, it can be used to manipulate others.” —Julius Caesar.
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Arnold Bennett: As if nothing had happened
“Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.” —Arnold Bennett.
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Tao Te Ching: Example
“The master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will.” —Tao Te Ching.
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Warren Buffett: Unbelievable heights
“Any asset class that has a big move, that’s based initially on fundamentals, is going to attract speculative participation at some point, and that speculative participation can become dominant as time goes by…. How far it goes, you never know. Some things go on to just unbelievable heights.” —Warren Buffett.
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Cicero: Pain
“There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain…” —Cicero.
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Thucydides: Habit of mankind
“For it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.” –– Thucydides.
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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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Dorothea Lange: Photography
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” —Dorothea Lange.
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Jeanne Crain: Prejudice
“I grew up without knowing anything about prejudice, my mother saw to that. If parents would keep prejudice and intolerance to themselves for one generation, we would have a different world.” —Jeanne Crain.
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Aaron Sorkin: Anonymity
“A mob acts out of emotion, absent facts, absent contemplation, mostly absent responsibility. What they get in return is anonymity. Conscience can be exhausting. It’ll keep you up at night. Mob’s a place where people go to take a break from their conscience.” —Atticus Finch, in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mocking Bird, played by…
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Warren Buffett: Fundamentals
“Charlie and I have circles of competence that extend to evaluating a number of types of businesses, and there are a whole lot of businesses that we won’t be able to evaluate…. We are best at the businesses where we can come to a judgment that they’re going to look a good bit like they…
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Simon Sinek: Loyalty
“Loyalty is the desire to defend someone when they are not there to defend themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Howard Marks: Uncertainty
“I’m firmly convinced that markets will continue to rise and fall, and I think I know (a) why and (b) what makes these movements more or less imminent. But I’m sure I’ll never know when they’re going to turn up or down, how far they’ll go after they do, how fast they’ll move, when they’ll…
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Anatoly Karpov: Champion
“To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player, one has to be a strong human being as well.” —Anatoly Karpov.
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Epictetus: Remind yourself
“Whenever you are about to start on some activity, remind yourself what the activity is like. If you go out to bathe, picture what happens at a bathhouse—the people who splash you or jostle you or talk rudely or steal your things. In this way you will be more prepared to start the activity, by…
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Arthur Conan Doyle: Even the little ones count for something
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike…
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Shuji Nakamura: LED light bulb
“The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.” —Shuji Nakamura.
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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.
