Yours truely
Great knowledge cannot come from an expected source. If it did, then the knowledge was always there in some suppressed form. The path to great knowledge is therefore through uncharted exploration.
Your descent into madness is coming along nicely – a thought I had when a math problem lead me to a mental infinite loop.
The one thing the fool and the wise man have in common is that they have the answer to everything.
I suppose all you can do is carve yourself a little bit of good off this world and hold onto it for as long as you can.
Start-ups are like roller coaster rides where you’re laying the tracks in front of you while you take the ride – they are not for the squeamish.
You don’t live forever…all you can really hope for is to live amongst those you love – To Kayman
It’s not amoral but it doesn’t mean you do it.
Miscellaneous
A master in the art of living
draws no sharp distinction between
his work and his play;
his labor and his leisure;
his mind and his body;
his education and his recreation.
He hardly knows which is which
He simply pursues his vision of excellence
through whatever he is doing,
and leaves others to determine
whether he is working or playing.
To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
–Education through Recreation (1932)
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods?"
–Horatius, Lays of Ancient Rome, Thomas Babington Macaulay
And though you tell me I shall die
You say not how or when or why
–John Betjeman
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness .
–Robertson Davies
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
–Charles Peters
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
–Sidney J. Harris
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
–Frederick Douglass
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
–Sir Arthur Eddington
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
–Kurt Vonnegut
Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.
–Evan Esar
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
–Cullen Hightower
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
–Casey Stengel
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
–Dave Barry
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before… He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
–Kurt Vonnegut
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
–Douglas Adams
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
–Henry Chinaski, Factotum, 2006
There are no magical fixes. Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.
–Scrubs
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared to death.
–Scrubs
The first decision you should make is whether you want to make the decision in the first place.
–Scrubs
When you consider what those of us here in this yard have been given, there is almost no limit to what the world should expect from us.
–Bill Gates to students at Harvard University
No one has any concept of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
–Napoleon Bonaparte
An innocent face hides more than a lying tongue
–Ovid
I tried to thank you along the way but if I didn’t, I thank you now.
–Leonard Cohen
Hope guides me through the days and the nights. The hope that the last time I saw you shall not be the last.
–A Knights Tale
To take part in "a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.
–founding of The Economist
Love is being with someone not because of who they are but in spite of who they are.
–Unknown Author (possible Melinda Scott)
Never trust a woman Elmer. Live by that one precept and your time with me will not have been in vain
–Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Subvert the dominant paradigm
–Guy Kawasaki?
Faith is believing in something that you know is a lie
–Mark Twain
We all have problems – How we deal with them is the measure of our worth.
–Code 46
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
–Robert M. Pirsig
Unknown
Illusions are dangerous…they have no flaws…
Do you think my son will like me – oh god my dad may have asked that question.
The kind of women I like, one can only woo with poetry. Alas! I am not a poet.
Knowledge is the enemy of religion.
Don’t write a cheque with your mouth that your body can’t cash.
Relationships are more important than rules.
People who lie for you will lie to you.
Never ask a tire salesman if you need new tires.
When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money and the man with money ends up with experience.
When bad things happen, keep the lesson and throw away the experience.
Although there may be reasons to be cynical, it never helps correct the situation.
Work enjoyed is as much fun as leisure.
If you’re the boss and you stop rowing, you shouldn’t be surprised if everyone else rests too.
People will keep on praising you while you follow their directions, but once due to your helplessness, if you fail to please them. They will forget all your past deeds and start hating you for your disobedience.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.
There is nothing in life so bad that with a little effort, can’t be made worse.
Aristotle
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
"What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
They [the young] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things” and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning” all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything” they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
To perceive is to suffer.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
