Posted 2239 days ago
Men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
—Edmund Burke
Posted 3456 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 3677 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 3706 days ago
Communication is what the listener does.
—Peter Drucker
Posted 3706 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 3764 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 4134 days ago
If you’re lonely, get to know yourself.
—heard on Fairly Legal
Posted 4134 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 4134 days ago
The world responds to action, and not much else.
—Scott Adams
Posted 4226 days ago
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
—Phil Karlton
