“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”
Edwin Schlossberg
Category Archives: Quotes
Quote of the day #99
“There’s poison in the hearts of cheerless men.”
Mark Oliver Everett
Quote of the day #98
“I’m a successful capitalist, but I’m tired of hearing that people like me create jobs. There’s only one thing that creates jobs, and that’s customers. And we’ve been screwing workers so long that they can no longer afford to be our customers.”
Tim O’Reilly summarizing a TED talk
by Nick Hanauer (recommended view!)
in his book WTF (recommended read!)
Quote of the day #97
“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”
George Santayana
Quote of the day #96
“Dictatorship is a mushroom on the dung heap of national despair.”
Alexander Comstock Kirk (US diplomat)
Quote of the day #95
“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
Sun Tzu (in The Art of War)
Quote of the day #94
“Ladies, if a man says he will fix it, he will. There is no need to remind him every 6 months about it.”
Bill Murray
Quote of the day #93
“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.”
Ed Catmull
Quote of the day #92
“I always follow the law, unless it is a bad law.”
Frank Van Massenhove
(high-ranking civil servant in Belgium)
Quote of the day #91
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
Miles Kington
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