Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Category: Quotes
Hire smart people to grow
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
Steve Jobs
“In the United States everyone is an illegal…
“In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant – everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.”
— Noam Chomsky
First capital
(more…)Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not then an article of mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
(letter to James Madison, 16 September 1821)
Life formula from Wozniak
If I died and had all this wealth and yachts and all this stuff, would I be as happy as when I laugh? And I thought about pranks I played and jokes I had told and music I would hear that would make me smile, and I came up with my formula that life is about happiness. Happiness equals smiles minus frowns. H = S – F.
Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder)
The man who reads nothing
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you’re saying.
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding – Da Vinci
“ The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ”
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sharing Ideas
If you keep trading an apple, you will always have an apple. But the ideas add up all the time.
Prof. R.M.
Anonymous Notes
“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”
Anonymous
Bertrand Russell Notes
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
Bertrand Russell
Karl Popper Notes
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
Karl Popper
Keanu Reeves Notes
“I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about morality, sustainability and philosophy instead of the Kardashians.”
Keanu Reeves
Ralph Waldo Emerson Notes
Never read any book that is not a year old.
Ralph W. Emerson, In Praise of Books (1860)
Thomas Jefferson Notes
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA