Quote of the Month — February 2022
“There are decades in which nothing happens and days in which decades happen” ...
“There are decades in which nothing happens and days in which decades happen” ...
“We have to find our way back to a definite future, and the Western world needs...
“Principles are important because there will always be a string of reasonable s...
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not becaus...
“We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a...
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.” — Anonymous
“If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you...
“They laughed at Columbus and they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they als...
“More fiction is written in excel than word.” — Anonymous
“If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince ...
“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has m...
“Once someone gets you to chant absurdities you start believing them, and once ...
“In my experience, getting to know someone I lionize ends up being a disappoint...
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice i...
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whe...
“To consistently create brilliant poets, you need a society awash in mediocre, ...
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.” ...
“You can’t overtake 15 cars in sunny weather… but you can when it’s raining.” ...
“The smartest people are also the laziest ones. I’m glad that I’m not smart.” ...
“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself per...
“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” — Greg LeMond
“Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.” — Irish Proverb
“You fight the battle you’re in, not the one you planned to be in.” — Rep. W...
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” ...
Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who writes its laws. —And...
“I have conquered the need to conquer the world.” — Anonymous to Alexander t...
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really ...
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they ...
“Don’t debate people in the media when you can debate them in the marketplace.”...
“If you want to predict the future, invent it.” — Alan Kay
“Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time firs...
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a ho...
“Every revolution needs three people: someone to think crazy ideas, someone to ...
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinkin...
There is not a strong correlation between “lots of people do it” and “it is goo...
What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that ...
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice...
“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admi...
“When you humanize your enemy, you, in turn, may be dehumanized by your communi...
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong
“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” — Norman Schwarzko...
“I wonder if anyone in the architecture profession has ever proclaimed `”Well i...
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a h...
“It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these c...
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” ― Oscar Wilde
“In a Democratic Society, power deserves scrutiny not gratitude.” — Robert R...
“Press used to be about the relationship between journalists and public figures...
“The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.” ...
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things ...
“Architect for flexibility, engineer for performance.” — Scott Shenker
“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.” — Bertrand Russel
“Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or cer...
“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?” — Al...
“Ever love someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well, make...
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A...
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” — Peter Thiel
“Never confuse an argument about linguistics with an argument about the world.”...
“The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually e...
“The world is against me. It wouldn’t be fair otherwise.” — Anonymous
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t as...
“Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the view...
“Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided b...
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” — Wayne G...
“Be stubborn on the vision, flexible on the details.” — Jeff Bezos
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” ...
“I am indebted to my father for living but I am indebted to my teacher for livi...