Quite a Quote!

John Sandford: Nice piece of writing

“Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you’ll find it is a very nice piece of writing.” —John Sandford.
Valery Legasov: What is the cost of lies?

“To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It…
George Washington: No excuse

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” —George Washington.
Tim Zonca: Plumbing

“If your goal is to grow your business by delivering an application or service, dealing with the plumbing of an application is not what your users want to pay for.” —-Tim Zonca.
Seth Klarman: Conservatism

“Conservatism may cause investors to refrain from making some investments that in hindsight would have been successful, but it will also prevent some sizable losses that would ensue from adopting less conservative business valuations.” —Seth Klarman
W H Auden: What all schoolchildren learn

“I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.” —W.H. Auden.
David Foster Wallace: Familiarity

“It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most familiarity is meditated and delusive. “ —David Foster Wallace.
Larry Tesler: Complexity

“You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you’ve reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.” —Larry Tesler.
Ansel Adams: Horrifying

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” —Ansel Adams.
Larry Tesler: Irreducible complexity

“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).” —Larry Tesler.
Willie Garson: Sidekick

“TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, Oh, that’s my dumb friend, or, That’s my funny friend. A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there’s nothing either character won’t do. That someone really, really has their back.” —Willie Garson.
Carson McCullers: Improvisation of human existence

“There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.” —Carson McCullers, writer (19 Feb 1917-1967).
David Garrick: Imagination

“You are indebted to your imagination for three-fourths of your importance.” —David Garrick.
Simon Sinek: Giving mindset

“Those with a giving mindset take some comfort knowing that even though they didn’t get exactly what they wanted, they helped someone else get exactly what they wanted.” —Simon Sinek.
Jack Gilbert: Farmer of poetry

“It’s not a business with me. … I’m not a professional of poetry; I’m a farmer of poetry.” —Jack Gilbert, poet.
Yoko Ono: We are all dreamers

“We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.” —Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono: Seasons

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” —Yoko Ono
Edgar Quinet: Time

“Time is the fairest and toughest judge.” —Edgar Quinet.
Caroline Flack: Being thin

“When I went to college, being thin was seen as good, so everyone told me I was normal. Then you get older, and you start putting on weight, and you’re like, ‘Oh God, I used to be really small.’ Then you get into the world of media, and you just feel the pressure massively.” —Caroline…
Ice T: Sarcastic shit “Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up.” —Ice T.
Dennis Prager: Feminism

“Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.” —Dennis Prager.
George Jean Nathan: Patriotism

“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.” — George Jean Nathan.
Kenneth B Collins: Tightest controls

“Businesses exert the tightest controls over the easiest thing to control, rather than the most critical.” —Kenneth B.Collins.
William Marks: Schmuck

“Stand on any street corner in any city of the world. Close your eyes. Stick out your arms. You will touch a schmuck.” —William Marks.
Paul Obis: Same ideas

“Someone else probably has the same ideas so a) get started, b) plan to do it better.” —Paul Obis.
Professor Leader W Matsch: Fool in high station

“A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a high mountain: everything appears small to him and he appears small to everybody.” —Professor Leader W. Matsch.
James Russell Lowell: Dreadfully like other people

“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.” —James Russell Lowell.
Dewar’s: Plenty of knots

“If you can’t tie good knots, tie plenty of them.” —From a Dewar’s scotch ad.
David Allen: Do it now

“If it takes less than two minutes, then do it now.”—David Allen,Author – Getting things done.
George Higgins: Writing

“No one asked you to write. And no one will care if you stop. If you succeed, no one will notice. It’s a rough, heartless business.” —George Higgins.
Grant Gilmore: Hellish law

“The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell, there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.” —Grant Gilmore.
Fred Friendly: Under-tipping and stiffing

“Nobody ever got rich under-tipping waiters and stiffing cab drivers.” —Fred Friendly.
K C Flory: Crap

“The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.” —K.C. Flory.
John E Eyberg: Relationships

“Regardless of how good we are in bed, our relationship is entirely dependent on how good we are out of bed.” —John E. Eyberg.
Daniel S Greenberg: Don’t ask the barber

“Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.” —Daniel S. Greenberg.
Dr. John H Dickey: Trust

“If they say they love you, trust their behavior. If they say they don’t love you, trust their words.” —Dr. John H. Dickey.
Rae Andre & Peter Ward: Morality

“Morality moves down the corporate ladder, but seldom up.” —Rae Andre and Peter Ward.
Myles Callum: Don’t do it

“Find out what you don’t do well, then don’t do it.” —Myles Callum.
Vincent Budri: People

“1) People always find time to do the things they want to do. 2) People always find the money to get the things they want to get.” —Vincent Budri.
Sam Brown: Offend them with substance

“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.” —Sam Brown.
Richard H Brien: Life cycle

“At some point in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.” —Richard H. Brien.
Bertolt Brecht: Know better

“As a grown man you should know better than to go around advising people.” —Bertolt Brecht.
Rozanne Weissman: Approval

“Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.” —-Rozanne Weissman.
Jules Asner: Bad aftertaste

“You’ve got loves of your life and breakups of your life, that kind of thing. They leave a mark. It stays with you, a bad aftertaste.” —Jules Asner.
James D Haviland: Feeling good

“If it feels good, do it. If it doesn’t feel good, do it anyway. It will feel good when it is over with.” —James D. Haviland.
Charles G Ross: Importance of a statement

“Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.” —Charles G. Ross.
Dr. Donald J Rosato: Sane people taking medicine

“The world is full of sane people taking medicine to enable them to cope with all the insane ones who should be using medications but refuse to do so.” —Dr. Donald J. Rosato.
Eric Sevareid: Chief cause of problems

“The chief cause of problems is solutions.” —Eric Sevareid.
Ann Landers: What we deserve

“Some of us should be thankful that we don’t get what we deserve.” —Ann Landers.
Roy Slous: Stuck with it

“If you do a job too well, you’ll get stuck with it.” —Roy Slous.