Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

— Adapted from Chuang Tzu, one of the founding figures of Daoism.

Write a short story a week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

“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