Quotes
Philosophical, Business/Entrepreneurship, Entertaining/Friends
Philosophical
"Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give offense. Rather, it's the product of the direct, cut-through-the-bullshit communications style that is natural to people who are more concerned about solving problems than making others feel warm and fuzzy." - Eric S. Raymond - How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
"It is the height of moral conscience to refuse to obey an unjust law. To obey an unjust law is to give credence to its oppressive power. To obey a law that punishes where no crime exists is to surrender to tyranny and, by acquiescence, endorsing the oppression.
The only righteous place for this kind of man is the jail cell. He must break the bad law openly and without apology, and without any victim but the pride of the state, it will be soon apparent to all that an injustice has taken place. Gradually, eventually, a crisis in the public confidence occurs, and in this vacuum, in this opportunity, change will come." - Marc Emery
If a lock, let it have been made in whatever country, or by whatever maker, is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is to the interest of honest persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are tolerably certain to apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of the knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance.
-- From A. C. Hobbs (Charles Tomlinson, ed.), Locks and Safes: The Construction of Locks. Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 (revised 1868).
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Apple Inc.
"Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?"
(But who is to guard the guardians?)
Juvenal, Satires, circa 120 AD
“The question ‘why printers did not succeed as well as brewers?’ was thus answered: ‘Because printers work for the head, and brewers for the stomach; and where twenty men have stomachs, but one has brains.’”
– The British Colonist, March 19, 1859
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the masses, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"The first step to achieving the results we really want is to fix the problem of believing that others are the source of all that ails us." @yrashk Dec 15, 2013
Business/Entrepreneurship:
Instead of focusing on the possibility of spectacular rewards from a venture, ask how great the loss would be if it failed. If the potential loss seems tolerable, take the next step. - The Power of Negative Thinking as posted in the paywalled WSJ.
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge
"What do you want to achieve if there was nobody to witness?" - @yrashk Dec 15, 2013
"The most profits are made on the sheep, the uneducated masses. Many today argue they want to be a sheep helping sheep, while a select few strive to understand the process of being a positive shepard. It doesn't mean you have to love the game, it means you're cognizant you're in it and are intelligently making decisions based off that premise."
"Any debt that forces you to work plunders from free time and shifts it to indentured time" MJ Marco - pg198 Millionaire Fastane
Entertaining/Friends
"I like quotes, who doesn't like a good quote?" - Kris Constable, Feb 26, 2015
"In working on the motor, I had been checking the fit of the motor parts inside my car's spare tire in the living room." Craig Carmichael while building a home made motor, while waiting for the chemicals in his home made battery to integrate, while waiting for appropriate weather to test his home made wave power generator.
"Beer consumption reduces cerebral oxidation caused by aluminum toxicity by normalizing gene expression of tumor necrotic factor alpha and several antioxidant enzymes."
Food Chem Toxicol. 2008 Mar;46(3):1111-8. Epub 2007 Nov 17
"Isn't there a study that said having a glass of wine every day is healthy? I'm like 10x healthier than that." - Will Whittaker
"We actually also custom built a spot welder from scratch using a 15 Farad 24 volt surplus Russian military capacitor which was designed to crank a tank in the dead of winter in Siberia." - Doug Yuill, January 22, 2009
"It seems that transparency and accountability are like Jesus and Santa to governments. Say the words a lot and your believers feel tingly inside, but there's no technical, verifiable evidence of either." - Kris Constable - Jan 7, 2013