My Favorite Quotes

  • “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    • — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • “We have two lives; the second begins when we realise we only have one.”
    • — Confucius

  • "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
    • — Arthur C Clarke

  • "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."
    • — Nat Friedman

  • "You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."
    • — Babe Ruth

  • “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
    • — William Shakespeare

  • “I always learn a lot more if I shut up and listen.”
    • — Lex Fridman

  • “The best way to navigate life is to have something to look forward to”
    • — Mark Zuckerberg

  • “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare."
    • — Muhammad Ali

  • “Life is best lived by first principles, or integrating incremental advancements into your intuition”
    • — Danial

  • “Never look down on someone unless you’re helping them up.”
    • — Jesse Jackson

  • “I never lose. I either win or I learn.”
    • — Nelson Mandela

  • “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
    • — Steve Jobs

  • “I want to stay as close on the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    • — Kurt Vonnegut

  • “Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate.”
    • — Ethan Zuckerman

  • “Dream about the dent you will put in the universe. Stay grounded in your reality. Build a plan that connects these two worlds.”
    • — Alfred Lin

  • "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
    • — Tara Ploughman

  • "Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve."
    • — Alan Perlis

  • “Focusing is about saying no”
    • — Steve Jobs

  • “The way to tell a great idea is when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'”
    • — Richard Feynman

  • "People who can't laugh at themselves will always be outwitted by people who can."
    • — T. K. Coleman

  • “If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas”
    • — Linus Pauling

  • "It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot."
    • — Gurwinder Bhogal

  • “I never understand anything until I have written about it”
    • — Horace Walpole

  • “Crime does not pay as much as code.”
    • — Freddy Vega

  • "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
    • — Abelson & Sussman,

  • "filter(P, S) is almost always written clearer as [x for x in S if P(x)]"
    • — Guido van Rossum on Python

  • “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”
    • — Ryan Blair

  • “If you focus on what you left behind you will never see what lies ahead.”
    • — Ratatouille Gusteau

  • “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible”
    • — Audrey Hepburn