The job of a leader is to understand, to believe, and to act… and to help others do the same.
- Me
To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what’s gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But, a life of meaning… A man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.
- Linderman
You don’t know what love is, you just do what you’re told.
- White Stripes
Emotions will rise and fall like waves on the ocean, but underneath at its center the water is always calm.
- Dalai Lama
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
(”All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the right one.”)
- William of Ockham (Ockham’s razor)
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
[What if] all the stuff in the anime “Serial Experiments: Lain” is true; that when the Web was created, they invented a protocol that linked all of our subconsciousness’ together. [That] somewhere somebody is thinking all the same thoughts that you are. It’s kinda like the Borg, only we believe in the illusion that we are independent.
- Me
They must find it difficult…
Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than truth as the authority…
- Gerald Massey
Weniger, aber besser (Less, but better)
- Dieter Rams
Your friends are the ones who believe in you.
- Me
Creativity — the ability to make or otherwise bring into existence something new, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
It takes almost as much creativity to understand a good idea as to have it in the first place.
- Alan Kay (Creator of the GUI)
Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, a million years of mountain-building there, plates of bedrock grinding against each other over a span of millennia… Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, really. Pressure and time.
- Red (Shawshank Redemption)
Wei wu wei (Act without action)
Shih wu shih (Work without effort)
- Lao Tzu
My products are my students.
- David A Huffman (Computer Scientist)
Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn in the stars themselves. We are star stuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.
- Delenn (Babylon 5)
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Einstein
The person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people - that person is headed for higher earning power.
- Carnegie
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca
Giant: Isn’t that road impossible to pass through?
Edward: The only reason why they say it’s impossible is that nobody has ever done it before.
- Big Fish (movie)
Cause the house always wins.
You play long enough,
never change the stakes,
the house takes you.
Unless,
when that perfect hand comes along,
you bet big,
and then you take the house.
- Daniel Ocean
Right makes might.
- Lincoln
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
- Picasso
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
- Confucius
Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.
- Nietzsche
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- Nietzsche
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
You just might find
You get what you need
- The Rolling Stones
The way it works is, you do the thing you’re scared shitless of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it, not before you do it.
- Three Kings (movie)
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
- Aristotle
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
- Cervantes
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Twain
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
- Twain
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
- C. S. Lewis
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
- Miguel De Unamuno
Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda
The things you own end up owning you.
- Tyler Durden
Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Boy: Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
- Matrix
Reality is for those who lack imagination.
- Fortune Cookie
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
- Einstein
Don’t try to be a great man, just be a man, and let history make its own judgments.
- Zephram Cochrane
Present Day, Present Time…
- Lain (anime)