A collection of quotes in no particular order
Kalashnikov was guided by the words of Georgy Shpagin: “Complexity is easy; simplicity is difficult.”
Low desire, simple life. -Unknown
Civilization is only three meals deep. -Unknown
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. -Rabindranath Tagore
Paul Dirac was also quite a character, and making small talk with him wasn’t easy. He once responded to the comment, “It’s a bit rainy, isn’t it?” by walking to the window, returning to his seat, and stating, “It is not now raining.” He was very careful with his speech; he once said, “I was always taught not to start a sentence until I knew how to finish it.”
A life well-lived is a life well-edited. My biggest area of growth this year was prioritization. I had to become much better at saying no - and I’m still not very good at it!
In short: Prune away the inessential. Pour yourself into what remains. -Atomic Habits 2019
As usual, legendary investor Warren Buffet put it best: “the stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient”.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein
If someone has to tell you how good they are at something, their work doesn’t stand on its own. If someone won’t explain why they made a decision, it is because they know that it was a bad one. If someone tells you that you aren’t worth listening to, its because they are afraid of what you will say. -Maurice Parker
Code is not an asset, it’s a liability. -Probably the wisest programmer ever
往死里囤
Hoard as much as possible.
paraphrasing Pasteur, put it this way: "We must have had a horseshoe around our necks. But then Nature seems to want to work for those who work hardest for themselves.”
Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-Arthur Shopenhauer
Because ordinary people can win at least 1 out of 10 times. -Unknown
“We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.”
—William Bateson
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Pythagoras declared that the eating of meat clouded the reasoning faculties. While he did not condemn its use or totally abstain therefrom himself, he declared that judges should refrain from eating meat before a trial, in order that those who appeared before them might receive the most honest and astute decisions. When Pythagoras decided (as he often did) to retire into the temple of God for an extended period of time to meditate and pray, he took with his supply of specially prepared food and drink. The food consisted of equal parts of the seeds of poppy and sesame, the skin of the sea onion from which the juice had been thoroughly extracted, the flower of daffodil, the leaves of mallows, and a paste of barley and peas. These he compounded together with the addition of wild honey. For a beverage he took the seeds of cucumbers, dried raisins (with seeds removed), the flowers of coriander, the seeds of mallows and purslane, scraped cheese, meal, and cream, mixed together and sweetened with wild honey. Pythagoras claimed that this was the diet of Hercules while wandering in the Libyan desert and was according to the formula given to that hero by the goddess Ceres herself.