Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Warren Buffett: Something being scorned
“It’s better to pay attention to something that is being scorned than something that’s being championed.” —Warren Buffett.
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Cicero: Avarice
“Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.” —Cicero.
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Jennifer Wright: Abortion and rape
“When people say abortion is only okay in cases of rape, they’re telling women they only get bodily autonomy if they’ve already been punished sufficiently.” —Jennifer Wright.
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G K Chesterton: Pornography
“Pornography is not a thing to be argued about with one’s intellect, but to be stamped on with one’s heel.” —G K Chesterton.
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Andy Hunt: Perfect software
“No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It’s unlikely that you’ll be the first.” – Andy Hunt.
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Simon Sinek: Fighting for and against
“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Financial institutions
“If you’re analyzing something like WD-40, or See’s Candy, or our brick business, or whatever…they may have good or bad prospects but you’re not likely to be fooling yourself much about what’s going on currently. But with financial institutions, it’s much tougher. Then you throw in derivatives on top of it, and…no one probably knows…
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Charlie Munger: Search expenses
“Now the search expenses that brought us Ajit Jain, now there was an investment that really paid a dividend. I can think of no higher return investment that we’ve ever made that was better than that one. And I think that’s a good life lesson. In other words, getting the right people into your system…
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles become strengths
“The struggles we overcome as children become our strengths as adults.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Elroy Flecker: Thy dawn
“Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn; For thee the sunlight creeps across the lawn, For thee the ships are drawn down to the waves, For thee the markets throng with myriad slaves, For thee the hammer on the anvil rings, For thee the poet of beguilement sings.” —James Elroy Flecker, The Story…
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Rabindranath Tagore: New melodies
“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.” —Rabindranath Tagore.
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Epicetus: For what would you sell these things?
“Your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?” —Epicetus.
