Quotes
Inspiration for the future, from the past.
Better roughly right than precisely wrong.
John Maynard KeynesBe married to the problem, not the technology. If you're married to technology, you might easily give up due to stress induced by setbacks or boredom. Being married to the problem will motivate you to have the perseverance to continue through hard times or tedious work.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
Sophisticated minds adopt simplified lifestyles; simplistic minds are drawn to overly sophisticated lifestyles.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
The Creative Adult is the Child Who Has Survived.
Rita J. KingThe task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
Arthur SchopenhauerClear thinkers take feedback from reality, not society.
The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge.
Naval RavikantPessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.
Nat FriedmanThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac AsimovFocusing is about saying no.
Steve JobsDon't assume malice when stupidity will suffice.
Feed a man a fish, feed him for a night. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to make AI, the AI does all the fishing and everyone is fed forever. Then the AI accidentally kills all the people and the fish win.
More importantly, it’s unwise to allow a third-party to define your long-term brand identity; sure, Facebook is huge now, but then so was the T-Rex.
Avoid stupidity before seeking brilliance.
Charlie MungerIt’s harder to be kind than clever.
Most people in their life reduce risk to the point where the probability of success goes higher but the consequence of success is inconsequential.
Vinod KhoslaA meeting assumes everyone’s time is equal. Rarely true.
Of course, fancy writing doesn't just conceal ideas. It can also conceal the lack of them. That's why some people write that way, to conceal the fact that they have nothing to say. Whereas writing simply keeps you honest. If you say nothing simply, it will be obvious to everyone, including you.
The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
Paul GrahamThe best "gift for the person who has everything" is to teach them something new.
Paul GrahamA problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles KetteringIf tobacco companies get in trouble for selling products that give people cancer, then universities should get in trouble for selling student debt to students with worthless degrees.
Naval RavikantBrilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
Airbnb's product would be 25% better with one new feature: WiFi speed tests. (they actually did it)
People who can't laugh at themselves will always be outwitted by people who can.
T. K. ColemanHe begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night.
Divorce complaint of Richard Feynman's second wifeWhat seems expensive is often cheap in the long run.
Ultimately the job of a frontend developer is to make people’s lives better, or at least not make it worse.
Charlie OwenBe great at what you do and you won't need a resume.
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
James GoldsmithYou are successful if you wake up every morning excited about the upcoming day.
Education is the job of a lifetime.
People want you to be successful until you are successful and then they don’t want you to be successful anymore. It’s a curious thing.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark TwainMy working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
Ernest HemingwayTutto ciò che è miope si paga a caro prezzo.
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.
Nikola TeslaThe advice I would give the younger me — or any young person — would be: Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.
Jerry SeinfeldIl creativo lavora mentre gioca e gioca mentre lavora.
Sebastiano GaggianoDifficult learning is durable learning.
Si offre il caffé a chi ti trova l'errore.
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.
Douglas MartinThe problem with genius is that you have to tolerate madness.
Don't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still.
Chinese proverbLe grandi storie sono nel passato, o nel futuro
Sebastiano VassalliTalent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.
Bill BelichickCreativity is a lifelong endeavor.
You have to start from the customer experience and work the technology backwards.
Steve JobsIf we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
C.S. LewisAny fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin FowlerFollowers are like frequent flier miles - great until you try and use them for something.
Naval RavikantAre you really living or just dying very slowly over seventy years.
“Take no one’s word for it.” In other words, figure it out yourself. That’s the only way to know anything.
Personality is what you do when someone is watching. Character is what you do when no one is watching.
A flower is simply a weed with an advertising budget.
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.
Douglas MartinJudge your level of freedom by how long you can turn off your phone.
Creativity needs criticism.
Chi ha talento fa cose diverse perché il talento glielo permette.
Antonio RezzaGreat minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor RooseveltEveryone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
Erica JongLa ricchezza non è equamente distribuita, ma nemmeno il coraggio.
Sebastiano GaggianoWhen people speak in a very elaborate and sophisticated way, they either want to tell a lie, or to admire themselves. You should not believe such people. Good speech is always clear, clever, and understood by all.
Leo TolstoyFacebook did to our parent's generation what they thought video games would do to us.
Clear thinkers take feedback from reality, not society.
Non ho mai compreso chi si vanta con fragorosa risata di esser sempre stato una frana in matematica. Ma che si vergogni, piuttosto.
Developers are students for life.
While you can't see it or touch it, the most valuable thing you have is your attention.
Quando l'autore è più importante dell'opera, l'autore non vale niente.
Antonio RezzaIt's particles all the way down.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max PlanckGame developers: with enough if statements and while loops I can do literally anything.
Web developers: I will use graph theory and a hand crafted functional state management framework to create this sign up form.
Saman Bemel-Benrud