Quotes

“Magic is indistinguishable from any sufficiently advanced technology.” - Arthur C. Clarke

“It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.” - Ed Seykota

“The most common error of all statesman is to believe firmly that there exists at any one moment a solution to every problem.” - Charles de Gaulle

“A problem is important partly because there is a possible attack on it and not just because of its inherent importance.” - Richard Hamming

“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.” - Johnny von Neumann

“And there is but one way to get an honest opinion upon any subject whatever. The person giving the opinion must be free from fear.” - Robert Green Ingersoll

“A ship in harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for.” - John A. Shedd

“Loose lips sink ships.” - US Office of War Information

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” - William Morris

“Satisfaction equals Reality minus Expectations.” - Ray Dalio

“Trees show the bodily form of the wind.” - Alan Watts

“Those who cannot begin do not finish.” - Robert Henri

“In certain books, some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.” - Robert Henri

“Man is a Tool-using animal … Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Here notice a certain self-fulfilling property: […] optimism can lead to high rewards, and likewise pessimism can lead to low rewards.” - Yoav Shoham / Kevin Leyton-Brown

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects” - Robert A. Heinlein

“There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves.
Or lose our ventures.” - Brutus, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Gold is the corpse of value. […] Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. By schoolchildren doing their lessons, improving their minds.” - Goto Dengo, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson