Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
-Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)
-Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)
started a science
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
-Hal Clement, science fiction author (1922-2003)
...right to
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?
-Roger Ebert, film critic (1942-2013)
underlying the...
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
-Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (1840-1928)
an equal eye...
The well taught philosophic mind
To all compassion gives;
Casts round the world an equal eye,
And feels for all that lives.
To all compassion gives;
Casts round the world an equal eye,
And feels for all that lives.
-Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (1743-1825)
most dangerous waste
"The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize."
- Shigeo Shingo
- Shigeo Shingo
...early warning
History is a vast early warning system.
-Norman Cousins, editor and author (1915-1990)
The test of democracy..
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
-Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968)
greater than kindness?
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (1712-1778)
know unmistakably...
I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.
-June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (1936-2002)
Ultimate...
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
-Jerry Rubin, activist and author (1938-1994)
Change into tree...
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
-Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (1911-2004)
opposite of something
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
...non-value adding wastes
"All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes."
- Taiichi Ohno
...in peace
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
-Franz Kafka, novelist (1883-1924) [while admiring fish in an aquarium]
same worn out soil...
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)
water and lots of sunshine...
People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.
-Nancy Farmer, author (b. 7 Jul 1941)
those who listen...
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
-Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (1621-1695)
Work is wonderful...
"If you took a stupid job that you find out you hate and you don't leave, that's your fault. Don't blame work; work is wonderful. I definitely will not be looking back on my life wishing I worked less. If that's not how you feel at work, quit."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
brain unfolding to success...
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
-Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer and inventor (10 Jul 1856-1943)
AI is opposite of Nike
"AI, on the other hand, is the most embarrassing thing we've ever invented in mankind's time on earth. Oh, you can't do the work. Is that what you're telling me? You can't figure it out? This seems to be the justification of AI: I couldn't do it. This is something to be embarrassed about. The ad campaign for ChatGPT should be the opposite of Nike: You just can't do it."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
Put tremendous hours...
"Learn to accept your mediocrity. No one's really that great. You know who's great? The people that just put a tremendous amount of hours into it. It's a game of tonnage."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
You earned it
"You didn't fake your fabulous education. You earned it. Be proud of it."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
That's a privilege
"I grew up a Jewish boy from New York. That is a privilege if you want to be a comedian."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
use your privilege
"Privilege is a word that has taken quite a beating lately. Privilege today seems to be the worst thing you can have. I would like to take a moment to defend it… I say, use your privilege."
- Jerry Drinfeld, writer and comedian
- Jerry Drinfeld, writer and comedian
Comfortable Torture
"Find something where you love the good parts and don't mind the bad parts too much. The torture you're comfortable with. This is the golden path to victory in life. Work. Exercise. Relationships. They all have a solid component of pure torture and they are all 1,000% worth it."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
focusing on the smallest
"I have truly spent my life focusing on the smallest things imaginable, completely oblivious to all the big issues of living."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
Rule of life...
"Number one you obviously know. Whatever you're doing, I don't care if it's your job, your hobby, your relationship… Make an effort… Effort always yields a positive value even if the outcome of the effort is absolute failure of the desired result. This is a rule of life. Just swinging the bat and praying is not a bad approach to a lot of things."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
3 Keys To Life
Number one. Bust your #%$.
Number two. Pay attention.
Number three. Fall in love.
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
...is way better than
"Find fascination. Fascination is way better than passion."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
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