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James Packer: Modern member of industrialized world
“Stop viewing China like it’s the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.” —James Packer.
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Charlotte Kirk: Never be afraid to hear people out
“Never be afraid to hear people out. You never know what might come of it. Inspiration comes from the least likely places sometimes. But you also have be your own filter. You’ll hear a lot more bad ideas and opinions than good ones, only you can decide which is which.” —Charlotte Kirk.
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Bob Chapman: Parenting is leadership
“Everything I learned about parenting is leadership and everything I learned about leadership was wrong.” —Bob Chapman.
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Luther Burbank: Jungle of weeds
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” —Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926).
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Warren Buffett: Temperament
“Phil Carret used to talk about having a ‘money mind,’ and I would call it a ‘business mind.’ And there are people…with identical IQs that are better adapted for one than the other. And the temperament is all important. I mean, if you can’t control yourself, no matter what the intellect you bring to the…
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Charlie Munger: Reading alone won’t do it
“I don’t know anybody who is wise who doesn’t read a lot. On the other hand, that alone won’t do it. You have to have a temperament, really, which grabs the correct ideas and does something with those ideas. And I think most people who read a lot don’t have the necessary temperament, and they…
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Ben Mendelsohn: Confessional culture
“I think now there’s much more of a confessional culture. That’s not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: ‘give ’em nothin.’ You don’t plead guilty.” —Ben Mendelsohn.
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Mario Batali: Kitchen
“The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.” —Mario Batali.
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Martha McSally: Deterrence
“The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.” —Martha McSally.
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Cillian Murphy: Sociopath
“Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there’s a distinct difference, it’s interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and…
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Alex Trebek: Hundred dollars
“I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.” —Alex Trebek.
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Luke Perry: Apple and medical devices
“Why doesn’t Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that’s where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it’s the key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world’s biggest…
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G K Chesterton: Right to do a thing
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Henry Ward Beecher: Compassion
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” – Henry Ward Beecher.
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Thomas A Kempis: Testimony of a good conscience
“The glory of a good man is the testimony of a good conscience. Therefore, keep your conscience good and you will always enjoy happiness, for a good conscience can bear a great deal and can bring joy even in the midst of adversity.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Christian ascetism
“The aim of Christian asceticism is not to be without feelings, without preferences, without desires, like some Eastern fatalist. It is to subject our feelings, our preferences, our desires to the Will of God by a continual peaceful act of aspiration to Him.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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Joseph Sobran: Names
‘Critics don’t bother debating; they call me names, most of which (apart from the obscenities) can be summed up in the word bigot. If I oppose State racial favoritism, I’m a “racist.” If I laugh at feminism, I’m “sexist.” If I consider homosexuality a perversion, I’m a “homophobe”’. —Joseph Sobran.
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Larry Flon: Bad programs
“There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.” – Larry Flon.
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Brandon T Jackson: Real women, stand up
“Why don’t women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama’s recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they dont make ’em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?” —Brandon T Jackson.
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Penny Marshall: Honesty helps
“Honesty helps. You get a long way in life as far as I’m concerned. You tell the truth, ask for help, instead of saying I know what I’m doing.” —Penny Marshall, actress and director.
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Marcus Aurelius: What you frequently hold in thought
“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Human
“Great leaders don’t see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fred Rogers: When I’m angry
“But do you know what I do when I’m angry? I like to swim, and so I swim extra hard when I’m angry…There are many things that you can do when you’re angry that don’t hurt you or anybody else.” —Fred Rogers.
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Zed A Shaw: Programming
“Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art. You can create projects that other people can play with, and you can talk to them indirectly. No other art form is quite this interactive. Movies flow to the audience in one direction. Paintings do not move. Code…
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Zed A Shaw: Pretty damn cool
‘I’ll say that learning to create software changes you and makes you different—not better or worse, just different. You may fi nd that people treat you harshly because you can create software, maybe using words like “nerd.” Maybe you’ll find that because you can dissect their logic, they hate arguing with you. You may even…
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Halle Berry: Cherry on the pie
“The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I’m the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don’t have a cherry.” —Halle Berry.
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Malcolm Guite: Cross of ash upon your brow
“Receive this cross of ash upon your brow Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross; The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands, The very stones themselves would shout and sing, If you could covenant to…
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Warren Buffett: Derivatives and risk
“Anytime you have incentives, with people who are quite smart, to mismark things, you’re going to get mismarks, or temptations to take on risk in an inappropriate manner. Originally with derivatives, the argument was made that it would disperse risk. That, you know, the Coca-Cola Company faced foreign exchange risk, or some bank faced, you…
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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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John Lithgow: Infantile senses of humor
“Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.” —John Lithgow.
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Sam Newman: Chatty communication, tight coupling
“A loosely coupled service knows as little as it needs to about the services with which it collaborates. This also means we probably want to limit the number of different types of calls from one service to another, because beyond the potential performance problem, chatty communication can lead to tight coupling.” —Sam Newman, Building Microservices:…
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Justin Trudeau: Very powerful mechanism
“A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.” —Justin Trudeau.
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Shaquille O’Neal: Unchecked ego
“An unchecked ego will sooner or later be bad for business.” —Shaquille O’Neal.
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Marcus Aurelius: Love and opinion
“We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Employees and customers
“The employees must love the company before the customers ever will.” —Simon Sinek.
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Piers Morgan: Ego
“Ego is your friend. If you don’t believe in yourself folks, nobody else will.” —Piers Morgan.
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Elizabeth Holmes: Empowered
“Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.” —Elizabeth Holmes. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/elizabeth_holmes_676262
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Julian Burnside: Shimmer of the numinous
“Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part…
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G K Chesterton: Nothing wrong
“The man who sees nothing wrong in himself is the one man who is really wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
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Johnny Noble: Pinnacle of manhood
“The pinnacle of manhood on Earth is experiencing genuine desire from beautiful women. Genuine.” —Johnny Noble.
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Lili Reinhart: Criticism
“People are going to criticize you no matter what, so I’m going to say whatever the hell I want to say.” —Lili Reinhart.
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Billie Eilish: Strong perspectives
“In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.” —Billie Eilish.
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Tamron Hall: Hip hop
“We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it’s done to our black girls, especially…
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J R R Tolkien: Confusions and impossibilities
“I wisely started with a map and made the story fit… the other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities.” — J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Wendy Williams: Learning and entertaining
“Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.” —Wendy Williams.
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Hiram Johnson: First casualty of war
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” —US Senator Hiram Johnson.
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Rosa Luxemburg: Chains
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” —Rosa Luxemburg.
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Nancy Bird Walton: Beauty of the air
“The beauty of the air, from the air… You haven’t seen Australia unless you see it from the air. The coastline, the colours of the inland. The claypans, the forests. It’s just all so beautiful. You’d never see that from the road. People climb mountains to see these things. You see that every time you…
