“Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.”
—Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”
— Noam Chomsky.
“There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.”
-Thomas Jefferson.
“Beware those who speak a lot but say little.”
—Simon Sinek.
“You can’t have true faith without works no more than you can have fire without heat.”
—D L Moody.
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
—Thomas Jefferson.
“At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it’s neither, quit.”
—Garry Tan.
“It’s very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it’s fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.”
—Claire Danes.
“I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.”
—Charles Evans Hughes.
“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”
—Prince Philip.
“You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you’ve got a lot of inaccuracies out there.”
—Steven Seagal.
“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”
—– Ellen Ullman.
“The poet is a kinsman in the clouds / Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; / But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, / He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”
—-Charles Baudelaire.
‘Normal is what the majority does, which is why “different” is so much more interesting.’
—Simon Sinek.
“It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”
—Barbara Kingsolver.
“Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”
– Joe Armstrong.
“Experience by itself is not science.”
—Edmund Husserl.
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.”
—-William Ellery Channing.
“The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.”
—Shane A Parrish.
“It seems to me that there are a great many people who want just religion enough to make them respectable, and keep them in society. I tell you God doesn’t want that kind of religion.”
—D L Moody.
“Sometimes the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.”
– John Carmack.
“There’s an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine’s free, and the harbour’s free, and the beach is free.”
—Russell Crowe.
“If we don’t give things a try, nothing will ever get off the ground.”
—Simon Sinek.
“We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.”
—Nicolas de Chamfort.
“A hair divides what is false and true.”
—Omar Khayyam.
—Simon Sinek.
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
—-Booker T. Washington.
“Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.'”
—Colin Powell.
“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky.
“Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.”
—Charles Petzold.
