It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. -- Anne Tyler (1941 - )
Pursue your passions, venture where you have never ventured before, pace yourself, serve others and have lots of fun. -- Shirley M. Tilghman
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of The Future, 1961
In the 21st Century, scientists and engineers will continue to inform us regarding what we can do with our ever-expanding knowledge base, but it is our shared responsibility to decide what we should do. And deciding what we should do is the greatest responsibility we all bear as we move forward together. -- Harold T. Shapiro
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. -- Bertrand Russell, 1947 (1872 - 1970)
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay
If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and effect—what is the source of the free will possessed by living things throughout the earth? -- Titus Lucretius Carus (99–55 BC)
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. -- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. -- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. -- Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. -- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
If you don't risk anything you risk even more. -- Erica Jong
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. -- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. -- Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his candle at mine, receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1813 (1743 - 1826)
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
There are too many people, and too few human beings. -- Robert Zend (1929 - 1985)
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. -- Sir Henry Taylor
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. -- Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. -- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. -- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
I like to build, solve complicated problems, be creative, learn, ski, practice nun chaku, play guitar, teach, and get distracted. I get excited about software, science, philosophy, humanity, economics, hardware, music, and finance. I act with the assumption that I will live forever--not because it is true, but because of the implications it has for how I live. I believe that innovation will enable immortal sentience in the next 50 to 150 years.
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