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Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper
until drops of blood read more
Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper
until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his
thumb on the scales.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his
thumb on the scales.
When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are
smarter than they are.
When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are
smarter than they are.
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which
all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in
which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is
designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and
uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We
survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it
any other way.
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept read more
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Do it, dump it, or change it.
Do it, dump it, or change it.
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your read more
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".
No wind favors him who has no destined port.
No wind favors him who has no destined port.