- If it’s an easy change, it’s superficial.
- Slavery is not being able to speak your mind.—paraphrased Epictetus
- You won’t get anything done by planning.—Karl Pilkington
- We build on our experience, not our plans.
- A culture of exposing weakness reduces critical failures.
- Life and pain share kinship.
- The gods do not give everything to people at the same time.—Homer
- People know when something is wrong. They rarely know how to fix it.
- No one wants to hear about how you would fix their problem.
- When you are beat, admit defeat.
- Practice is the teacher of all things.
- Experimentation is non-stop, an unstable self requires constant exploration.
- Everyone, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.—Robert Louis Stevenson
- The world is large, and we can experience very little of it personally. To see what the world is like, we need to rely on other means: carefully collected global statistics.
- Gifts debase people’s minds and actions.—Nostoi
- The remedy for an offense is to forget it.
- Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
- He who has struggled with continuous troubles gets hardened to injury and bends to no misfortune.—Seneca
- Be small in small matters and big in large ones.
- The price of vengeance: everything.
- Contentment is for those that control their heart and stomach.
- It is hard work having everyone as a friend; it is enough not to have enemies.—Seneca
- If you say what you want, you may hear what you don’t.—Alcaeus
- Words may not carry weapons, but they wound the heart.
- The future can be found in our own mind.
- Action produces information.
- Crises expose realities and strip away obfuscation and misdirection.
- Machine learning is money laundering for bias.—Maciej Cegłowski
- Running from one problem often leads to a different one.
- Virtue’s first rule is to avoid vice, and wisdom’s is to not be stupid.—Horace
- What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.—Robin Sharma
- Wherever the storm drives me, I put ashore and look for shelter.—Horace
- Facts are often time or context limited.
- Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.—Howard Aiken
- A truly free, unencumbered, competitive marketplace is the best assurance against tyranny.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.—George Santayana
- Only ideology can keep a group together.
- Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
- Not having all the information you need is never a satisfactory excuse for not starting the analysis.
- Sometimes, it is best to throw everything out and start over.
- There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though.
- Past experience provides a reality check. But, current reality doesn’t reflect the future.
- You’re probably not smarter than the others.
- Ninety percent of everything is crap. Finding the ten percent that is gold is the value of culture.
- When in doubt, document.
- Don’t do anything dumb.
- Schedules only move in one direction.
- You can’t get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees.
- Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
- You can’t make it better until you make it work.
- First time, every time. Doing it again is your punishment for when you fail.
- Understanding comes the third time.
- Cutting losses quickly is the foremost rule of speculating.
- Money isn’t made in the trading, but in the waiting.
- We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails —Cora L. V. Hatch, 1859
- Our minds remain open even after the drugs wear off.
- You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.—Robin Williams
- Do not search for reason where there is none.
- Never decide when angry; never promise when happy.
- You don’t own the world’s problems.
- Systematize everything. Reproduction is key to improvement.
- Life is a dream. We can dream a better dream. We can even wake up.
- If there is no recourse there is no law.
- Immortality transmutes the human person into a God or monster.
- Life is a process of learning shit you never ever wanted to hear.—Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
- People with few choices must be patient and canny.
- Control requires acknowledgment.
- No liberty. No prosperity.
- Emotional support can be as simple as spending time with someone and stating facts.
- Comedy, and tragedy, is often finding the things you hate in what you love.
- Risk constrains growth. No risk, no limits.
- Different networks have different bottlenecks and points of failure.
- Revel in all things glitch.
- There is no cannot. Either try or ask for help.
- Guilt is a luxury few can afford.
- Be in the place you are in and don’t pretend.
- Too many old things crowd out the new.
- We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.—Winston Churchill
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