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C S Lewis: Consolations of religion
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.” —C S Lewis.
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Olivia Laing: What art can’t do
“There are so many things that art can’t do. It can’t bring the dead back to life, it can’t mend arguments between friends, or cure AIDS, or halt the pace of climate change. All the same, it does have some extraordinary functions, some odd negotiating ability between people, including people who have never met and…
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C S Lewis: Excellent campaigning weather for the devil
“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Olivia Laing: Loneliness
“Loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed but simply that one is alive.” — Olivia Laing.
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C S Lewis: Cut up
“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Amphibians
“Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Arnold Toynbee: Civilizations in decline
“Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.” —Arnold Toynbee.
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Amy Goodman: Protesting
‘Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying “no” to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.’ —Amy Goodman.
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C S Lewis: Adulthood
“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And…
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Michael Mauboussin: Preserve options for future play
“You can do the right thing for some time and it won’t show up in results. You have to be able to manage money to see another day—that is, preserve options for future play—and take a long-term view.” —Michael Mauboussin.
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Scott Turow: Stories we tell ourselves
“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?” —-Scott Turow.
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C S Lewis: Man’s power over Nature
“What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” —-C.S. Lewis.
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Steve Jobs: Quality
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” —Steve Jobs.
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Warren Buffett: Cash
“The one thing I will tell you is the worst investment you can have is cash. Everybody is talking about cash being king and all that sort of thing. Cash is going to become worth less over time. But good businesses are going to become worth more over time. And you don’t want to pay…
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Gordy Jr & Bradford: That’s what I want
“The best things in life are freeBut you can give them to the birds and beesI need moneyThat’s what I wantThat’s what I wantThat’s what I want” — Berry Gordy Jr. and Janie Bradford, “Money (That’s What I Want),” 1959.
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C S Lewis: Nonsense questions
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Charles Evans Hughes: Good company
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.” —-Charles Evans Hughes.
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C S Lewis: Thirty
“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.” —-C. S. Lewis.
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Anne Lamott: Best makeup
“Joy is the best makeup.” —Anne Lamott.
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C S Lewis: Equator
“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”— C. S. Lewis.
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Billie Holiday: Any damn body’s sermon
“You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.” —-Billie Holiday.
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St. Augustine: Awful catastrophe
“This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.” — St. Augustine.
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Charles Baudelaire: Less boring
“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” —-Charles Baudelaire.
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C S Lewis: Cause and reason
“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” —C. S. Lewis.
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Sun Tzu: Matter of organization
“Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.” —Sun Tzu.
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C S Lewis: Safest road to Hell
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” —C S Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Grief
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket…
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C S Lewis: Sound atheist
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.” —C. S. Lewis.
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Sun Tzu: Utter disorganization
“When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.” —Sun Tzu.
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Roy Osherove: Tests
“Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project.” ― Roy Osherove.
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Be independent
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor. Still less did she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent.” —Nicolas de Chamfort.
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C S Lewis: Tyranny
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Verna Myers: Diversity versus inclusion
“Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” —-Verna Myers.
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Sun Tzu: Signs and signals
“Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one; it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.” —Sun Tzu.
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C S Lewis: Future
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” —C S Lewis.
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Maya Angelou: Ignorance
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.” —-Maya Angelou.
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C S Lewis: Present world
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next.” —C S Lewis.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bare lists of words
“Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.” —-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Washington Irving: Love is never lost
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” —-Washington Irving.
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C S Lewis: Living each day in grief
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”—C.S. Lewis.
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Anonymous: No coincidence
“Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don’t think that this is a coincidence.” —Anonymous.
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Ken Pier: Natural act
“I liken starting one’s computing career with Unix, say as an under- graduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural…
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Howard Marks: Trends
“Many of the biggest mistakes made in the business and investment worlds have to do with cycles. People extrapolate uptrends and downtrends into eternity, whereas the truth is that trends usually correct: rather than go well or poorly forever, most things regress to the mean. The longer a trend has gone on – making it…
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Kenneth Tynan: Neurosis
“A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you’re keeping.” —Kenneth Tynan.
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C S Lewis: Afflictions
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.” —C.S. Lewis.
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Maria Robinson: Make a new ending
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson.
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C S Lewis: Originality
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” —C S Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Two kinds of people
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’” ― C. S. Lewis.
