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_