Quite a Quote!

Huang Binhong: Cleverness and stupidity

“To understand that cleverness can lead to stupidity is to be close to the ways of Heaven.” — Huang Binhong.
Mary H K Choi: Fall early, reach early

“It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early.”— Mary H.K. Choi.
Theodore Roosevelt: No substitute for elemental virtues

“Though conditions have grown puzzling in their complexity, though changes have been vast, yet we may remain absolutely sure of one thing; that now as ever in the past, and as it will ever be in the future, there can be no substitute for elemental virtues, for the elemental qualities to which we allude when…
Bella Lewitzky: Deeply rooted

“To move freely you must be deeply rooted.” —Bella Lewitzky.
Tom Dale: Purely based on popularity

“If you are choosing a JavaScript library purely based on popularity, I think you deserve what you get.” —-Tom Dale.
Haruki Murakami: Memories

“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.” —-Haruki Murakami.
Eric Hoffer: Inert coagulum

“The conservatism of a religion – it’s orthodoxy – is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.” — Eric Hoffer
Danny Thorpe: Programming

“Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are.” – Danny Thorpe.
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Admire kind people

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Dr. Seuss: Any direction you choose
Joseph Campbell: Goal of life

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” —Joseph Campbell.
Will power

“You don’t find will power, you create it.” —UNKNOWN.
Lord Acton: Compromise and barter

“All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.” —Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton).
Stephen A Schwarzman: Time wounds

“Time wounds all deals, sometimes even fatally.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman.
Simone de Beauvoir: Truth rewarded me

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.” —Simone de Beauvoir.
Richard Hamming: Little acorns

“The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn’t the way things go.”— Richard Hamming.
Bob Dylan: Money swears

“Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” —Bob Dylan.
Steve J Martin: Change behavior
Steve J Martin: Context
Steve J Martin: Small uncertainty
Kahlil Gibran: Radiations of their personalities

“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” —Kahlil Gibran.
Richard J Daley: Disorderly police

“The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.” -– Richard J. Daley.
Rich Hickey: It’s about thinking

“Programming is not about typing, it’s about thinking.” — Rich Hickey.
Benjamin Franklin: Be always at war

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin.
Umberto Eco: Fear prophets

“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.” —-Umberto Eco.
Max Eastman: In favor of the status quo

“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” —-Max Eastman.
J R R Tolkien: Round the corner

“Still round the corner there may wait, / a new road or a secret gate.” —-J.R.R. Tolkien.
Isaac Asimov: Morals

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.” —Isaac Asimov.
James Clear: Habits

“Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it. In fact, the people who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom. Without good financial habits, you will always be struggling for the next dollar. Without good health habits, you will always seem to be short on energy. Without…
Peter Kaufman: Patience

“Patience is a product of confidence and trust.” —Peter Kaufman.