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Dick Cheney: Liberty
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.” —Dick Cheney.
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Will Rogers: Alibi
‘When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, “I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.”‘ —Will Rogers.
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Thomas Paine: Equality of man
“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow-creatures happy.” —Thomas Paine.
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James Reston: Devilish foreign affairs
“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.” —James Reston.
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Aristotle: Common
“For that which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it”— ARISTOTLE, Politics.
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Eugene Wigner: Computer problem
“It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.”—EUGENE WIGNER.
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Carl Lewis: Once you’re out, you can’t go back in
‘Honestly, I don’t think America is any more divided than it’s always been. The difference is that this administration allowed people to say things openly. People feel free to be evil, racist, and ignorant. But this country has always been divided — by race and by gender.The racism and misogyny were always there. What’s changed…
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Carl Lewis: It’s not about excellence anymore
‘We live in a society that no longer rewards or even values the excellence of performance. We’re too focused on the prize. That’s what social media has done to us; it doesn’t matter what you actually achieve. If you have enough likes, enough followers, and if you’re famous, then you’ve “won”. It’s not about excellence…
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John Adams: Power
“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” —John Adams.
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Andrew Gazdecki: Make someone’s life noticeably easier
“Your startup doesn’t need to change the world. It just needs to make someone’s life noticeably easier.” —Andrew Gazdecki.
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Bill Mauldin: Status quo
“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.” —Bill Mauldin.
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Eckhart Tolle: Past power
“The past has no power over the present moment.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Prunella Scales: You’ve got to do the action
“I’m afraid my own approach to everything is exactly the same: Who am I? What do I want? What are the circumstances — difficult or non-difficult? What are the obstacles, physical and non-physical? Finally, given who I am, the circumstances, the obstacles, what do I do? That’s the only thing you do. You’ve got to…
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Desiderius Erasmus: I buy books
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” —Desiderius Erasmus.
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Viktor E Frankl: Space
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”—Viktor E Frankl.
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Theodore Roosevelt: The President
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely…
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Forgetting
“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”—Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Mitch Hedberg: Fake plants
“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.” —Mitch Hedberg.
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Satish Shah: Not come to become a hero
“They wouldn’t think that I am the new Shammi Kapoor, and I was aware of it. I had not come to become a hero.” —Satish Shah.
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Alan Cohen: Appreciation
“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”—Alan Cohen.
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Brenda Ueland: Hold your audience
“You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end — much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.” —Brenda Ueland.
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Piyush Pandey: Insecurity
“The more insecure you are about your idea, the less you will share it and the less the possibility for a good idea to become great.”—Piyush Pandey, Pandeymonium.
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David Graeber: General rule
“There seems a general rule that the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.” —David Graeber.
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Leszek Kolakowski: No excuse
“In politics, being deceived is no excuse.” —Leszek Kolakowski.
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Felienne Hermans: Confusion
“Confusion is part of programming.” ―Felienne Hermans.
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Doris Lessing: Learning
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” —Doris Lessing.
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Mauricio Macri: Future of work
“The future of work will be a race between education and technology.” —Mauricio Macri.
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Martin Gardner: History of boneheads
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all.” —Martin Gardner.
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Dorothy Parker: The ladies men admire
“The ladies men admire, I’ve heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light; They’d rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints… So far, I’ve had no complaints.” —Dorothy Parker.
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Asrani: Autobiography
“If you publish Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, no one will read it but if it’s Madhuri Dixit’s or Madhubala’s autobiography people will come and read it.” —Asrani.
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Kristian Hammond: Humanize machines
“As we humanize machines, we stop mechanizing ourselves.” —Kristian Hammond, Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University.
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Beautiful people
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an understanding of life that fills them with compassion…Beautiful people do not just happen.” —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
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Al Gore: Airplane travel
“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” —Al Gore.
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Arthur Miller: Value
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.” —Arthur Miller.
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Ryan Singer: Software complexity
“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.” —Ryan Singer.
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Martin Luther: Every green tree
“If we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” —Martin Luther.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Principal element of creation
“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realising on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.” —Rabindranath Tagore.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Persuade a man
“I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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William Feather: Enjoying life
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” —William Feather.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Sea of small acts
“Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Osho: Remain in the world
“Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond.” —Osho.
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Diane Keaton: Relationships are hard
“Relationships are hard. You’re lucky if you find someone.” —Diane Keaton.
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Eric S Raymond: Zen paradox
“Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed — but it is…
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Carl Lewis: America
“Don’t talk to me about America right now. Because the reality is that now the America that we grew up in, and we saw and we knew all along, is showing itself. Trump did not change anything. He just gave people a forum to talk. So now that they’re talking, the world sees America. That’s…
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Carl Lewis: Africa
“Africa, that’s a continent that’s been ignited and there are 52 countries, billions of people that are finally exposed to a lot of the same opportunity. And of course they’re going to be. India is the same way. India gets its infrastructure of youth going and then gets them into colleges. If they could go…
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Steven Berkoff: Power in a symbol
“We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an actuality.” —STEVEN BERKOFF.
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Lin Yutang: Small men, big shadows
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” —Lin Yutang.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sense of the beautiful
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
