Category Archives: Words of wisdom
Quotations, wise tales and more …
Ex-top investor in Russia explains what’s really driving Putin
“A desperate little man who is afraid of being killed. A small little man who is worried about the people rising up against him.” – Bill Browder
Stand with Ukraine in the Fight against Evil | Garry Kasparov | TED
Obama says Putin has changed since he was in office
“Part of our complacency grew out of the notion that once the Berlin Wall fell, and Mandela was released, and the world was flat and we had McDonald’s everywhere … and now suddenly, that was it, we were done.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4bDuFJuriw
Growing through pain
“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent— no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” – Seneca
Hard work never killed anyone
Be creative !
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Health is wealth
Make stuff
“It was just a toy. I had always liked building stuff. But one of the problems with building stuff is you need to have parts: wood, wires, switches or stuff like that, and those cost money. Here [with software], you can build arbitrarily complicated things and you didn’t need any physical materials. You needed no money.”
James Gosling, founder of Java, on why he was drawn to programming as featured on Lex Fridman’s pod. Software is the creation of value out of your brain power and time. What other systems require such minimal inputs for such potentially world-changing outputs?