A running log of quotes worth remembering.
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
“All models are wrong, but some models are useful."
— George Box
“One can hoodwink their way to $10M. One can only earn their way to $10B.”
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed."
— William Gibson
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
— Alan Kay
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
— Alan Perlis
“Never let short-term greed get in the way of long-term greed.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
— Carl Jung
“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain."
— Maya Angelou
“The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want."
— Bram Cohen
“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care."
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Anything can be learnt and mastered with enough time, effort and focus.”
“Expertise is a toolbox and experience is knowing which tool to use."
— Daniel Olshansky
“Figure out what you want to do vs what you want to want to do. Now do it."
— Daniel Olshansky
“Patience with results. Impatience with action.”
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
— Bill Gates
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“The perfectionist is never satisfied… Perfectionism is not a quest for the best; it is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves.”
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
— Bob Dylan
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
— Bruce Lee
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
— John Maxwell
“The mind reflects the room and the room reflects the mind.”
— Mike Rosario
“Earn your leadership every day.”
— Michael Jordan
“AI is indefinite abundance and crypto is definite scarcity.”
— Sam Altman
“Tech debt is a ‘know it when you see it’ kind of thing.”
— Tom MacWright
“There is superstition about creativity, and for that matter, about thinking in every sense.”
— Pamela McCorduck
“Read the paper, things have never been worse. Read history, things have never been better.”
— Fergus Cullen
“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.”
— Epictetus
“If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it.”
— Grace Hopper
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
— Bruce Lee
“I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language.”
— Kobe Bryant
“Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.”
— Frank Ocean
“Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time… Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.”
— Evan Williams
“Start with something that sucks, and then remove the suck.”
— Pixar
“I don’t know much, but I know one thing: the ordinary life isn’t for me.”
— Shawn Purri
“You can’t fix a problem with the same thinking that created it.”
— Albert Einstein
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, only looking backwards.”
— Steve Jobs
“The whole is simpler than its parts.”
— Josiah Gibbs
“The big money isn’t in the buying and selling, it’s in the waiting.”
— Charlie Munger
“Common sense is the least common commodity.”
— Li Lu
“Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”
— Oscar Wilde
“We might be wrong but we’re not confused.”
— Tomer Cohen
“Write for yourself, not for others. Apply this to everything you write.”
— Daniel Olshansky
“If I’m a little bit confused, others definitely are too.”
— Daniel Olshansky
“You’ve got more than one shot. Don’t be afraid to repost content.”
— Daniel Olshansky
“Imagine you listen to your self five years from now on a podcast. Do whatever would make your future self inspire you today.”
— Daniel Olshansky
“The difference between a senior and junior engineer is that a senior engineer never says, ‘I’m 100% sure.’”
— Daniel Olshansky
“The right level of tech debt balances speed with sustainability. Too much or too little can hinder progress.”
— Daniel Olshansky