Quotes
Inspiration for the future, from the past.
Better roughly right than precisely wrong.
John Maynard KeynesPessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.
Nat FriedmanWhile you can't see it or touch it, the most valuable thing you have is your attention.
It’s harder to be kind than clever.
Personality is what you do when someone is watching. Character is what you do when no one is watching.
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles KetteringA meeting assumes everyone’s time is equal. Rarely true.
The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
Paul Graham“Take no one’s word for it.” In other words, figure it out yourself. That’s the only way to know anything.
The 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 SeinfeldCreativity needs criticism.
Ultimately the job of a frontend developer is to make people’s lives better, or at least not make it worse.
Charlie OwenAny fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin FowlerMy working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
Ernest HemingwayQuando l'autore è più importante dell'opera, l'autore non vale niente.
Antonio RezzaWhat seems expensive is often cheap in the long run.
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.
The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge.
Naval RavikantMost people in their life reduce risk to the point where the probability of success goes higher but the consequence of success is inconsequential.
Vinod KhoslaBe great at what you do and you won't need a resume.
Difficult learning is durable learning.
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 TeslaIf 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. LewisLa ricchezza non è equamente distribuita, ma nemmeno il coraggio.
Sebastiano GaggianoFocusing is about saying no.
Steve JobsDon't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still.
Chinese proverbQuestions 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 MartinIl creativo lavora mentre gioca e gioca mentre lavora.
Sebastiano GaggianoOf 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.
Are you really living or just dying very slowly over seventy years.
When 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 TolstoyYou pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
James GoldsmithSi offre il caffé a chi ti trova l'errore.
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
Erica JongAvoid stupidity before seeking brilliance.
Charlie MungerQuestions 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 MartinTalent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.
Bill BelichickAirbnb's product would be 25% better with one new feature: WiFi speed tests. (they actually did it)
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.
The problem with genius is that you have to tolerate madness.
Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor RooseveltKeep 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 TwainIf 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.
You are successful if you wake up every morning excited about the upcoming day.
People who can't laugh at themselves will always be outwitted by people who can.
T. K. ColemanThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac AsimovIf 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 RavikantDon't assume malice when stupidity will suffice.
It's particles all the way down.
Sophisticated minds adopt simplified lifestyles; simplistic minds are drawn to overly sophisticated lifestyles.
A flower is simply a weed with an advertising budget.
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.
Facebook did to our parent's generation what they thought video games would do to us.
Be 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.
Clear thinkers take feedback from reality, not society.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
Judge your level of freedom by how long you can turn off your phone.
The best "gift for the person who has everything" is to teach them something new.
Paul GrahamThere are no solutions, only trade-offs.
The Creative Adult is the Child Who Has Survived.
Rita J. KingFollowers are like frequent flier miles - great until you try and use them for something.
Naval RavikantThe 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 SchopenhauerA 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 PlanckLe grandi storie sono nel passato, o nel futuro
Sebastiano VassalliEducation is the job of a lifetime.
Creativity is a lifelong endeavor.
Non ho mai compreso chi si vanta con fragorosa risata di esser sempre stato una frana in matematica. Ma che si vergogni, piuttosto.
Chi ha talento fa cose diverse perché il talento glielo permette.
Antonio RezzaDevelopers are students for life.
Clear thinkers take feedback from reality, not society.
He 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 wifeYou have to start from the customer experience and work the technology backwards.
Steve JobsGame 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-BenrudTutto ciò che è miope si paga a caro prezzo.