Posted 2350 days ago

Men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

—Edmund Burke

Posted 3567 days ago

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

—Machiavelli

Posted 3788 days ago

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, does not try it on.

—Billy Connolly

Posted 3817 days ago

Communication is what the listener does.

—Peter Drucker

Posted 3817 days ago

He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

—Unknown

Posted 3875 days ago

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you’re away and get nothing done, there’s another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

—Daniel B. Luten

Posted 4245 days ago

If you’re lonely, get to know yourself.

—heard on Fairly Legal

Posted 4245 days ago

Lawyers are taught to take a position, whether it’s right or wrong ideologically, and defend it – to go collect facts to support it. Whereas engineers are taught the inverse of that, they’re taught to collect facts and then come up with an answer based on the facts. That’s the kind of thought process we need more of in government.

—Thomas Massie

Posted 4245 days ago

The world responds to action, and not much else.

—Scott Adams

Posted 4337 days ago

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

—Phil Karlton

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