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.” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus)