Quotes

My Quotes

• We do whatever we do because we don’t know any better.
• A carefree life is a happy life.
• You couldn’t do something in the past doesn’t mean you cannot do it now.
• Will power doesn’t work. Systems and practices do.
• Don’t regret time spent on learning. Everything you learn may be useful at some point in your life.
• You don’t have to choose one, you can have the best of both - welcome to hybrid thinking.
• Do not underestimate the impact of a little bit of planning upfront.

Favorites

• The best way to make a million dollars is by helping a million people.
• "Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I'm afraid. And he gives me courage."
  ― Gandalf
• "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
  ― Friedrich Nietzche
• "I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people."
  ― Eduardo Galeano
• “It's hard to talk about the importance of an imaginary hero. But heroes are important: Heroes tell us something about ourselves. History tells us who we used to be, documentaries tell us who we are now; but heroes tell us who we want to be. And a lot of our heroes depress me. But when they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a gun--they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an x-wing fighter--they gave him a box from which you can call for help. And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat-ray--they gave him an extra heart. They gave him two hearts! And that's an extraordinary thing. There will never come a time when we don't need a hero like the Doctor.”
  ― Steven Moffat
• "Human progress isn’t measured by industry. It’s measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy’s value is your value. That’s what defines an age, that’s… what defines a species. "
  ― The Doctor
• "And you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight, 'till it burns your hand, and you say this: No one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will have to feel this pain! Not on my watch."
  ― The Doctor
• "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
  ― William Gibson
• "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
  ― George Orwell
• "A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze."
  ― Margaret Atwood
• “To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”
  ― Liu Cixin
• “Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.”
  ― Liu Cixin
• “Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?”
  ― Liu Cixin
• “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
  ― Anaïs Nin
• “The highest result of education is tolerance”
  ― Helen Keller
• “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
  ― Joe Klaas
• “I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
  ― Rita Mae Brown

Murphy's Laws

• In any field of endeavor, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
• Left to themselves, things will always go from bad to worse.
• If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong, is the one that will cause the most damage.
• Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
• If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Information Technology

• Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
  - Greenspun's Tenth Rule
• As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.
  Paul Graham, Blub paradox