Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Linus Torvalds
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Marshall McLuhan
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
Stephen Hawking
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Christianity makes suffering contagious.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.
Dong Nguyen
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
Hitopadesa
You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
Candace Bushnell
She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.
When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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